Adams (Alexander) - The Eternal Quest ...

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‎Adams (Alexander)‎

‎The Eternal Quest - The Story of the Great Naturalists‎

‎Constable - London Ferce sur Sarthe, France 1970 Book Condition, Etat : Bon hardcover , under dust-jacket fort In-8 1 vol. - 509 pages‎

‎12 plates 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : In the beginning - Some inquiring men - Carl Linnaeus - 1707-1778 - Georges Louis Buffon - 1707-1788 - Jean Lamarck - 1744-1829 - Georges Cuvier - 1769-1832 - Alexander Wilson - 1766-1813 - John James Audubon - 1785-1851 - Alexander von Humboldt - 1769-1859 - Charles Lyell - 1797-1875 - Louis Agassiz - 1807-1873 - Charles Darwin - 1809-1882 - Alfred Wallace - 1823-1913 - Thomas Huxley - 1825-1895 - Thomas Mendel - 1822-1884 - Today and tomorrow - Notes, bibliography - Appendices : biographical sketches - classification - geologic table - Mendel's discoveries - index working copy from Pierre Thuillier, many annotations at pencil and ink, otherwise near fine copy - jacket lightly torn and repared without significant missings‎