Buy this book on-line Broom, R : The Coming of Man: Was It Accident or Design?(London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1933)
Demy 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 238, incl. index; frontis. plate and several text figures. Cloth rubbed at extremities; joints a little chafed; backstrip somewhat mottled and sunned (cover enclosed in durable, removable protector); earlier owner's discreet hand-stamp to front free endpaper; small patch of deletion fluid to front pastedown; some foxing, which is quite pronounced to outermost leaves. Good to very good condition. (Musiker: The Australopithecinae, 202) Not in Holm's 'Bibliography of South African Pre- and Proto-Historic Archaeology'. Particularly interesting is the seventh chapter, 'The possibility of a Spiritual Agency'. The Dictionary of South African Biography notes that Broom 'was a thoroughgoing evolutionist, but he differed fundamentally from Darwin, Huxley, and the geneticists about the forces responsible for evolutionary change.' - DSAB V, p. 95. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Broom, R : The Coming of Man: Was It Accident or Design?. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, libri antichi, antiquarian books, first editions and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |