Popular Lectures on Man: His Structures and Functions, Considered with Reference to Health, Culture, and Natural Theology

xvi, 260pp including subscribers list and publisher's ads. Black cloth-covered boards; blind-embossed front and rear; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Front board and spine are detached; rear hinge still attached; slightly cocked. Sun-faded spine. Lightly bumped, rubbed and scuffed spine ends. Light bumping, rubbing; cloth worn through at corners. Mottling and wear to extremities. Text block edges foxed and tanned. Signature binding. Endpapers foxed and tanned; front free endpaper missing. Foxing throughout; intensity varies greatly. Some lack and white illustrative engravings.

A series of lectures given by John White in the early part of the 19th century considering human anatomy and physiology from various perspectives and the philosophical argument for God's existence through the natural world.