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SOUTH POLAR TIMES VOLUME III. Terra Nova Expedition

ref. 41Smith Elder London 1914. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Number 35 of a limited edition of 350. Original covers page edges gilt no dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: Pages 16 3342434493125 and 148 are PHOTOCOPIES. Contents clean. Volume 1 & 2 were Scott's 1st "Discovery Expedition" whilst Volume 3 is from his 2nd "Terra Nova" Expedition. Although often sold as a set Volume 3 is a complete book in its' own right. The original broadsheets were produced at Cape Evans to amuse the men on the 'Terra Nova' Expedition. It was designed to be published separately from Volume 1 & 2. Cherry-Garrard was the Editor and typist and Wilson the main illustrator. The 1st issue was presented on Midwinter's Day 1911 the 2nd on 8th September and the 3rd on 15th October. Content included poetry humorous articles illustrations of sledging flags and caricatures. Includes Wilson's moving poem 'The Barrier Silence'. Copiously illustrated drawings in the text and full-page plates from sketches and paintings by E. Wilson H. Ponting and others. Spine shaken gutta-percha binding delicate some pages loose as is usual with the 1st Edition. This copy is still bright and handleable with care Gutta Percha was used as the binding glue in many early books it is not a difficult job to remove and reback using modern glues The South Polar Times was a magazine written and printed by the members of Antarctic Expeditions during the various voyages they undertook and forms what is perhaps the most personal of the printed documents to have come out of that most remarkable of periods of Antarctic adventures revealing so many often contradictory aspects of these men's various personalities. It contains a diary of the events of each month a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society a monthly acrostic humorous notes besides articles of a more solid nature as well as stories sketches of various kinds and poems. One of the corner stones of an Antarctic collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 41. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Smith Elder hardcover

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EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748. Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer la formation de la Terre l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.Guers

1748ref. 1641Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils libraires 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: 10 cxix 7 208 pp. 1 f. "Errata" for Tom. 1. II: 2 231 pp. 1 f. "Addition" 1 f. "Errata" for Tom 1 sic. First title page with unobtrusive paper defect on lower margin not affecting text; this copy is lacking half-title and Errata leaf for Tom. 2. Very attractive 19th-century French red glazed boards red morocco spine lettered in gilt directly two insignificant worm-holes on lower hinge leading nowhere; trifle wear to binding extremities. Completely unsophisticated. First printing of "Telliamed" in every way a remarkable book. Disguised as an Oriental fantasy it contains perhaps the earliest appearance of one of the most important of all evolution speculations namely the so-called ultra-neptunian theory: that the entire Earth was and is a marine deposit and that all life on land originated from creatures of the sea. Maillet hypothesized that the earth was once entirely covered with water and that the water gradually evaporated into space causing land masses to appear. Maillet also created an ingenious methodology to calculate the age of the Earth: he concluded that the Earth is 2 billion years old evolutionists today consider this figure to be more like 4.5 billion. It is known that Buffon Lamark Cuvier and Darwin read this book and that they were very much influenced by Maillet's unorthodox "heretical" views. Well aware that such an immense figure would incur the wrath of the Church de Maillet presented his conclusions in the guise of a dialogue between a French missionary and an Eastern mystic named Telliamed an anagram for the author's last name i.e. de Maillet spelled backwards. The manuscript remained unpublished until a decade after Maillet's death. In order to present his radical conclusions in the guise of an Oriental tale Maillet interspersed monsters and mythological creatures into his text. Overtly anti-Christian "Telliamed" dismisses the Flood of the Old Testament as a fable because rainfall that lasted forty days would have been insignificant to submerge entire mountains. Maillet asserted that the Earth's history could not be read from the Bible but through the rocks themselves. ¶ With uncanny prescience Maillet describes how species have overlapping physical characteristics that suggested a common life origin namely the sea. Through a Oriental mystic we are told that: "The little Wings had under their Belly and which like their Fins helped them to walk in the Sea became Feet and served them to walk on Land." ¶ REFERENCES: Caillet No. 7009. Versins Utopie p. 640. LITERATURE: "Charles Darwin et ses Precurseurs francais Paris 1870 Chapter 1: "the moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world." See also Albert Carozzi "De Maillet's 'Telliamed' 1748: An Ultra-Neptunian Theory of the Earth" in: Toward a History of Geology; Proceedings of the New Hampshire Inter-Disciplinary Conference on the History of Geology Sept. 7-12 1967. Mary Efrosini Gregory "Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought" Chapter 1. See also the article on Maillet in DSB IX pp. 26 et seq: "Maillet's ideas unquestionably influenced many leading naturalists for almost a century notably Buffon and Cuvier. Chez l'honore et fils, libraires hardcover