A Budget of Paradoxes [Signed]
by De Morgan, Augustus. [Edward Burnett Tylor]
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. First edition. Hard cover. Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the Athenaeum. A posthumous publication edited by De Morgan's widow. Published London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. 8vo., vii, [1 erratum], 511, [1 colophon], illustrated with tables, drawings within the text, plus Longman's Catalog of September, 1877 appended [30pp.]. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's copy with his signature and bookplate. Tylor was Fellow of the Royal Society, the founder of cultural anthropology and the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford. This copy of "Paradoxes" was presented to Oxford University by his wife upon his death in 1917, with a commemorative bookplate: "From the Library of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, KNT., D.C.L., F.R.S., The first Reader and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford. Presented to the Radcliffe Trustees by Dame Anna Rebecca Tylor, June, 1917." Blue cloth with gilt spine titles, gray endpapers. Spine frayed at the crown and heel, some splitting of the cloth at the rear outer hinge, moderate wear at the tips. Two stamps of Radcliffe Library University Museum Oxford and BODL-LIBR. DUPLICATE SOLD BY AUTHORITY on preliminaries, no other markings. Internally very good, text clean and bright. . Signed. 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007944
- Title
- A Budget of Paradoxes [Signed]
- Author
- De Morgan, Augustus. [Edward Burnett Tylor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- SIR EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Science; Anthropology;
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