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On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text..
On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text..
  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text..
  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 2.
  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 3.
  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 4.
  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 5.
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  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 7.
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  • On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text. — photograph 10.

On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text.

Kidd, John · London

Author
Kidd, John
Date
1837
Place
London
Publisher
William Pickering
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5" x 8.25") 18 pages of Manuscript bound at front of book, in Latin. Full brown polished calf with blindstamp and gilt rule framing covers. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title/author to gilt rule bordered black leather to second compartment, overall (faded) gilt filigree devices to each other compartment. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head and foot of spine with small closed tears, board edges rubbed, gilt faded to spine. Rear jont tender. Over-illustrated with 20 engravings. 18 pg of manuscript mentioning the "Bridgewater Treatices" in Latin towards front of book.
Category
Science & Medicine
Record
S.I.6313

On The Adaptation of External Nature to The Physical Condition of Man Principally With Reference to the Supply of His Wants and The Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties, + 18 pgs Ms. in Latin bound to front of text.

Author: Kidd, John (b.1775 – 1851) 8vo.(5" x 8.25") Kidd, John. 1837. London. Printed by William Pickering. 18 pages of Manuscript bound at front of book, in Latin. Full brown polished calf with blindstamp and gilt rule framing covers. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title/author to gilt rule bordered black leather to second compartment, overall (faded) gilt filigree devices to each other compartment. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head and foot of spine with small, closed tears, board edges rubbed, gilt faded to spine. Rear joint tender. Over-illustrated with 20 engravings. 18 pg of manuscript mentioning the "Bridgewater Treatices" in Latin towards front of book.

From Wiki: In 1830 the president of the Royal Society appointed him as one of the eight authors of the Bridgewater Treatises "on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation." His treatise on the "Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man," which was published in 1833, offered "a popular rather than a scientific exposition of facts" and set out to protect readers from materialism and the transmutation of species. Kidd refused to "maintain an argument" about natural theology, addressing himself "exclusively to those who are believers. "He delivered the Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians in 1836.

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