LYELL. ANTIQUITY OF MAN, LATER EDITIONS (AND US EDITION), SOME WITH LYELL'S SIGNATURE

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man. With remarks on theories of The Origin of species by Variation. John Murray, 1863, second edition, revised, frontispiece, upper hinge partially split; another copy, third edition, revised, frontispiece, LYELL'S RETAINED COPY WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE ON FRONT ENDPAPER; another copy, fourth edition, revised, frontispiece, AUTHOR'S RETAINED COPY WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE ON ENDPAPER AND NOTE ON LAKE DWELLINGS ON FRONTISPIECE, marginal annotation on p.481 (probably authorial); these all original green cloth gilt; another copy of the third edition, revised, pencil annotations on rear endpaper (? possibly by a family member), original purple-brown cloth (slightly smaller size than the green cloth issue), printed label on spine, binding sunned, label torn; another copy, second American edition, Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1863, LYELL'S RETAINED COPY, with his inscription in ink on front endpaper "From 2nd edn Antiquity English edition" and neat autograph addition to title page, original dark green cloth gilt; all illustrated with woodcuts; 8vo (5)

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