ANTI-DARWINISM
ANTI-DARWINISM
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Bilder zu Darwin's Entstehung der Arten. [Title from binding]. Contents includes two chromo-lithographic preliminary leaves (the first printed in gold) followed by 20 numbered hand-coloured lithographic plates ‘Invent., collect, lith.u.edirt v. Fr. Schmidt’, followed by an additional chromolithographic plate, a leaf from an unidentified work and finally a leaf with two tipped in anti-Semitic drawings in purple ink. Oblong 8vo., 210 x 165 mm, bound in original green cloth stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. [NP, ND, Berlin, 1870’s].
An exceedingly rare German work satirizing Darwin’s Theory of Evolution with hand-coloured lithographs depicting inanimate objects metamorphosing into humans or animals. Although undated, the album was likely published soon after the first German edition of Origin of Species published in 1860.
The lack of a clear ‘title’ renders this book somewhat difficult to locate in library holdings, however, it’s clear that it hardly exists at all. Some toning and minor spotting to the plates, overall a very good copy.