Ellsworth Huntington

Civilization and Climate

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1915.

First Edition. Original cloth boards with gilt titles. Spine is toned with fraying to extremities and rubbed corners. Binding is firm, pages are clean.

First edition of Huntington’s magnum opus, in which he posits that the pulse of civilization is dictated by climatic conditions. A foundational text in the development of 20th-century human geography.

. Good. Item #676

Price: $150.00