Hardcover. Boston, William White & Co, 3rd, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Black boards with embossed pictorial border, gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, light rubbing to covers, top third of outside of front hinge cracked, mild edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st US, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black design and gilt lettering, 363 pages plus publisher's ads. A late nineteenth century reference on natural science and philosophy. Papillon's engrossing essays, written at various times and put together in this volume as - after the fashion of the time - an effort to dovetail science, metaphysics and philosophy into a higher understanding of life. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.