Item #51444 George Lincoln Burr - His Life: Selections from His Writings. Roland H. BAINTON, Lois Oliphant Gibbons, George Lincoln Burr.

George Lincoln Burr - His Life: Selections from His Writings.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick Royal octavo. xii + 506pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. portrait. Bibliography. A biographical sketch with a collection of the writings of George Lincoln Burr, ( 1857 – 1938 ), a U.S. historian, author, and educator, best known as a Professor of History and Librarian at Cornell University who argued that religion inevitably impeded the progress of science. Page-edges faintly toned, otherwise a clean VG+ copy (no dust jacket). Item #51444

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