Essays, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1863. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Former library copy - usual marks. 1863 Hard Cover. 209 pp. Brown cloth, paper spine label. Includes: Biographical Sketch of Henry Thomas Buckle; Mill on Liberty; The Influence of Women on the Progress of Knowledge. "Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 - 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History".