Marriage and Disease: A Study of Heredity and the More Important Family Degenerations
New York: D. Appleton, 1892. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
1892, First American edition. Hardcover, original olive cloth. 326 pp., plus ads. Includes a few charts. Very Good. Minor bumping/shelfwear to the tips of the cloth; minor rubbing to cloth; former owner's old signature on fly leaf; sound binding; clean text. Uncommon on the marketplace, with about 30 copies worldwide on OCLC. The author, a British lawyer and member of the Medico-Legal society, lays out his theories about eugenics and inherited personality traits. Includes plenty of pseudoscience, and a fair amount of misogyny, anti-Semitism and odd theories about love and marriage.
Publisher: D. Appleton
Place: New York
Year: 1892
Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Item #6601
Price: $140.00