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[RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL]. WRIGHT, THOMAS. The Universe and the Stars, Being an Original theory on the visible Creation, founded on the laws of Nature... First American edition... with notes by C. S. Rafinesque. Philadelphia: Printed for Charles Wetherill 1837.
8vo, 232 x 147mm. (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.), original printed yellow wrappers (publisher's ads on back cover), stitched, spine and extremities frayed, soiled, a few conjugate leaves detached, foxing.
First American edition. Rafinesque intended to publish a set of copper engravings reproducing the 33 quarto plates of the first edition (London 1750), but like so many of his projects, this one was never realized.
Fitzpatrick 874.
Provenance:
Blurred ink stamp on verso of title
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
8vo, 232 x 147mm. (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.), original printed yellow wrappers (publisher's ads on back cover), stitched, spine and extremities frayed, soiled, a few conjugate leaves detached, foxing.
First American edition. Rafinesque intended to publish a set of copper engravings reproducing the 33 quarto plates of the first edition (London 1750), but like so many of his projects, this one was never realized.
Fitzpatrick 874.
Provenance:
Blurred ink stamp on verso of title
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).