Graves Evolution and Reproduction of the Human Race 1889

Graves, P. A., Prof. of Astrology ‘Evolution and Reproduction of the Human Race – Man Produced by Stellar Magnetism – Diseases and their Causes Explained – They are Not necessarily Hereditary – How to Prevent Mental and Physical Weakness in Children’ San Francisco, California, 1889.

Two copies. Copy A: Original outwardly cloth-lined paper covers (damp-mottled; inside of front cover partly abraded and adhered to ffep.) with gilt titling and decoration to front cover. Staples originally driven through inner margins (rusted, no longer properly holding the book together). (Title page only weakly attached to ffep; together they are attached to front cover but separate from the rest of the book block; remaining prefatory pages and main pages to p. 48 together but disbound; pp. 97-136 together but disbound.) Copy B: Original outwardly cloth-lined paper covers (damp-mottling to lower and outer margins of rear cover, and slightly to some corners of front cover; separation to extremities of spine hinges; wear to upper outer corner of front cover) with gilt titling and decoration to front cover. Subsurface staples through inner margins (pp. 137-8 and the front endpapers have broken free of the staples). (Damp-staining to upper outer margins of front end-papers. 2 cm tear to outer edge of leaf comprising pp. 129-130. Separation between pp. 136-7. Upper inner corner of leaf comprising pp. 137-8 slightly chipped and torn. Upper outer corner of leaf comprising pp. 107-8 chipped. Blue crayon bracketing to p. vii. Faint pink-pencilled underlining to pp. 91-4, 100-1, 111-114, 118-119, 126, and 131-8. Pale pink marginal bracketing to pp. 98-9 and 101. Blue inked underlining to p. 97.) Both copies: [2] + [pp. iv-v] + [pp. vii-xii] + [pp. 7-138]

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Carefully reproduced in full colour from one of our original printings of the 1889 first edition.

P. A. Graves was a late 19th century American esotericist and astrologer who presented the subject of astrology within a distinctive esoteric framework, exemplifying the diversity and complexity of esoteric thinking in the United States in his day. Evolution and Reproduction of the Human Race (1889) is the first of his two works dealing with astrology, and is now rare.