Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

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1851 William & Robert Chambers, (Edinburgh, Scotland) 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches tall hardbound volume, leather spines and tips over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii, 416. Covers are rubbed, bumped and edgeworn especially at tips. Occasional soiling, creasing, foxing, dampstaining to pages. Holes in front free-endpaper, Cracking between half title and title page in front, and pages 414-415 in back, though all holds firm. Last page of volume (page 416 is only attached at the bottom of the page. Rear cover to boards peeling a bit. Otherwise, a good reading copy.~EEE~Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 ? 17 March 1871) was a Scottish author, journal editor and publisher who, like his elder brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician, was highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles. He was the anonymous author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which was so controversial in that religion-dominated era that his authorship was not acknowledged until after his death. N° de ref. del artículo EEE-0141-165

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