POSSIBILITIES OF CREATION OR WHAT THE WORLD MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BOOK OF FANCIES

by J. G. Hargreaves

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Simkin Marshall and Co., 1863. Octavo, pp. i-v vi-xii xiii-xiv 1 2-410, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and soine panels stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, bottom edge untrimmed, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Biological evolution. Intriguing speculation of what ifs: Satan created our world, there was a rarefied atmosphere, the Earth received less sunlight, it was colder, man

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