VOGT, William.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

La vie d'un homme. Carl Vogt. Avec deux portraits par Otto Vautier. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "Pour Monsieur le Professeur, Dr. Gaucher, Hommage respectueux, W. Vogt" on the front wrapper. This may be the dermatologist Philippe Gaucher (1854-1918), who was in 1896 a lecturer and head of the clinical department at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris. William Vogt's study of his father, the zoologist and philosopher of science Carl Vogt (1817-1895), covers a life which included studies with Agassiz, disputes with Marx, and early support for Darwinian evolution.

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