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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.G[uers] by Maillet, Benoit de

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Title: [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.G[uers]
Author: Maillet, Benoit de
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Amsterdam: 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 The manuscript remained unpublished until a decade after Maillet's death.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.

[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables by Thomas-Scheler (Librairie / Bookseller) - Stephane Clavreuil (compiler)

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Title: [INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables
Author: Thomas-Scheler (Librairie / Bookseller) - Stephane Clavreuil (compiler)
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Paris: Librairie Thomas-Scheler, 1994. First Edition. Very good. Folio. 50 items described and illustrated. Original wrappers. Price-list loosely inserted as issued. An extraordinary catalogue of 50 incunables which includes many great rarities, i.a. the first edition of Homer in Greek (Florence, 1488 -- Doheny copy). The price-list has been annotated by B.H. Breslauer: the published prices total FF 5,743,000 -- not including 9 items Prix Sur Demande which he estimated to be ca. FF 4,500,000 -- and thus the entire catalogue amounts to more than FF 10,000,000 (an impressive sum in 1994). We have seen other instances whereby B.H. Breslauer added up all the asking prices in a single bookseller's catalogue, not only as a pastime but as an expression of his intense competition, even though he had few rivals. ¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana (sale at Christie's NY, 2005, lot 1275).

Darkness at Noon by Carlisle, Harry

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Title: Darkness at Noon
Author: Carlisle, Harry
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Condition: Endsheets faintly offset from dust jacket flaps; tips a bit bumped; fine in a rubbed dust jacket with an L-shaped closed tear to
Description: New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. Endsheets faintly offset from dust jacket flaps; tips a bit bumped; fine in a rubbed dust jacket with an L-shaped closed tear to the spine and some edge wear./Dust jacket design by Sugar.. 8vo, 313pp; brown cloth. Possibly the only novel by this elusive, English-born writer, based on his experience as a coal miner in western Britain before the World War. After the war, Carlisle emigrated to the U.S. His dust jacket bio reads in part: "Here are some of the things he has done: In England: grocer's boy, moulder's apprentice, coal-mine worker, machinist, waiter, munitions inspector, sailor in the Royal Navy, window-cleaner, boiler attendant. In America: janitor's assistant, stock-room clerk in a publishing house, sailor, economic investigator, accountant, radio sales organizer, manager of a music store, two-dollar-a-night trucker on fruit piers, owner of a bookstore, book reviewer, motion-picture reader, machinist, dishwasher, ghost-writer (scenarios and several novels) . . . . And he is only 33 years old!" Carlisle was an ardent communist, colleague, and, evidently, lover to fellow writer Tillie Olsen, with whom he traveled to the American Writer's Congress in 1935. He was active in the John Reed Club and was ultimately brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in their pursuit of supposed communists in the film industry. As a member of the LA Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, a front organization, he faced deportation proceedings as a "Communist Alien" under the McCarran act, one of the so-called "Terminal Island Four." A shadowy figure in the film business who left little trace, Harry Carlisle appeared as one of the witnesses in Warren Beatty's 1980 film "Reds," about Reed. This copy of his elusive novel shows some additional cinematic pedigree. The author's inscription on the front endpaper marks the intersection of two Hollywood career paths going in distinctly different directions: "To William Wyler, with sincere congratulations for "Hell's Heroes" -- and hoping for mutual respect - Harry Carlisle, April 7, 1931." "Hell's Heroes," a western, was Wyler's first sound feature. He would shortly become one of the most honored and critically acclaimed directors in all of American cinema, winner of three Academy Awards for best director and best picture, while directing fourteen actors to Oscar-winning performances.

The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication] by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COATES, Ta-Nehisi

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Title: The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication]
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COATES, Ta-Nehisi
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Description: New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white and sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],227,[1]pp. Signed on the title page in the month of publication, dated 5/27/08." While not explicitly marked as such, this copy comes from the library of Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, who has highlighted passages on 30 pages. Base of spine gently nudged; Very Good+ in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $22.95). The National Book Award-winning author's first book, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore, and the influence of his father (a former Black Panther) on he and his older brother.

Batman: Death by Design by KIDD, Chip and TAYLOR, Dave

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Title: Batman: Death by Design
Author: KIDD, Chip and TAYLOR, Dave
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9789781401237
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Description: NY:: DC Comics,. Near Fine. 2012. Hardcover. 9781401234539 . First printing. About fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. .

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