L'Évolution et la Vie

Paris: G. Masson / Librairie de l'Academie de Medecine, 1888. Very Good. Paris: G. Masson / Librairie de l'Academie de Medecine, 1888. Troisième Édition, revue et augmentée. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed in brown; [4],341pp. Spine a bit toned, light wear to wrapper extremities, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Masson price cancel (minor offsetting to half title) affixed inside upper wrapper. Treatise on evolution by the right-wing Catholic politician, scientist, and man of letters (Cochin would be elected to the French Academy in 1911), in which the author argues that Darwin's theory of evolution does not exclude God as creator.