ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS; A Series of Discussions
by Spencer, Herbert
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865. Early reprint. Cloth. Very Good. 1865 printing. A Very Good copy. 8vo., xxiv, 451 pp., with 4 pages of ads at the end. Bound in the publisher's gray-green cloth with title on spine in gilt. Lower tips bumped. Spine ends frayed. Handsome bookplate. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30580
- Title
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PROGRESS; A Series of Discussions
- Author
- Spencer, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early reprint
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1865
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Rougemont, North Carolina
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- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....