From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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Large 8vo. 10 x 6.5 inches. xvi + 398 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has some foxing and edge loss, with missing section on lower rear wrapper with loss of image captions. Some edge wear to boards, including head and tail of spine; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographic plates and by genealogical table. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of title. A work of collective biography, concentrating on three members of this high achieving family. The founder was Thomas Henry Huxley (1816-87), distinguished scientist, biologist and anthropologist, and a strong supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He himself had taken part in a similar voyage of scientific exploration to Darwin's, aboard the Rattlesnake in the southern hemisphere, 1846-50, studying marine invertebrates. The other two notable Huxleys were the two grandsons of Thomas Henry, Julian (1882-1975), the biologist, and the writer, Aldous (1894-1963), author of Brave New World (1932). BIOGRAPHY SCIENCE BIOGRAPHY- SCIENCE- BIOLOGY LIT. FICTION 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY. Seller Inventory # 28494
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE HUXLEYS.
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Publication Date: 1968
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