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rif. 121934London Chatto & Windus 1923. . First edition first impression; 8vo; light offsetting to endpapers else unmarked internally; publisher's olive green cloth white title label to spine printed in green extra label tipped in at rear olive green topstain with the original dustjacket priced '6s. net' on spine spine panel slightly darkened but a lovely copy nonetheless. Early collection of essays in the distinctive Chatto & Windus dustjacket. London, Chatto & Windus, 1923. hardcover
rif. 1023474468.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 50185329like new. unknown
1923rif. 1390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390293. Special Collections - Downstairs. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1923rif. HUXLEYAL016473Chatto & Windus London. 1923. First edition. Octavo. 229 pages. Spare title-label at rear. Twenty-seven essays most of which appeared in The Athenaeum under the title ''Marginalia'' and over the signature Autolycus.Edges slightly spotted. Free endpaper edges browned. Corners of rear cover slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good indeed slightly spotted dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks. Chatto & Windus, London. unknown
1923rif. 55191London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First edition. Twenty-seven notes and essays by Huxley. The book has offset on end papers otherwise very good in dust jacket with light chipping on corners and spine ends. Chatto & Windus unknown
1928rif. 1806549Chatto and Windus. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1928. Hard Cover. J86 . Chatto and Windus hardcover
rif. 36916London: Chatto & Windus / Phoenix Library. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE -- Corresponds to / earlier hard cover edition of ISBN: 0701108118 -- with a bonus offer--; T-Huxonmar; Huxley Aldous On the Margin : Notes and Essays . 1928. 0701108118 . Chatto & Windus / Phoenix Library hardcover
1923rif. 40775London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. 8vo pp. 229. Cover little worn extra spine label tipped on rear blank o/w VG. Muir & van Thal p.20. Chatto & Windus unknown
1923rif. 1390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1390293. Special Collections - Downstairs. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1923rif. 98394NY:: George H. Doran Company. Good. 1923. Hardcover. First American edition. Moderate shelf wear and aging previous owner's name on front free endpaper else good in blue cloth. No dust jacket. . George H. Doran Company, hardcover books
1923rif. 1962London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth a bit faded endpapers with quite browned. Still a nice square copy in uncommon wrapper some general light wear. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1923rif. 37738New York: George H Doran Co. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. ; . . George H Doran Co. hardcover books
1923rif. 40775London: Chatto & Windus 1923. First Edition. 8vo pp. 229. Cover little worn extra spine label tipped on rear blank o/w VG. Muir & van Thal p.20. Chatto & Windus unknown books
rif. 1161545883.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1853rif. 42327London Richard Taylor and William Francis 1853 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853 Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 29-65 and 4 engraved plates. Firs printing of one of Huxley's importent memoirs. unknown
1853rif. 42327(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 29-65 and 4 engraved plates.
1863rif. 32820395Original cloth paper spine label chipped. Very good. Cloth case FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. From the library of Millard Fillmore 13th president of the United States 1850-1853 with his signatures dated May 22 1863 on the title and on the front pastedown. Huxley "Darwin's bulldog" was the leading defender and promoter of Darwinism in the years following the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this popular work Huxley attempts to "disencumber the subject of its difficulties simplify its statements relieve it of technicalities and bring it so distinctly within the horizon of ordinary apprehension that persons of common sense may judge for themselves. … Such is the character of the present volume" preface. This volume reflects the wide dissemination of Darwin's ideas in the 1860s. Appleton hardcover
1863rif. 54344NY: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First American edition. Original brown cloth spine label. Fray to spine ends label slightly chipped and tanned; splitting of cloth at outer hinges but joints holding light corner wear. Small PO plate. Small corner loss to ffep.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1506 pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1870rif. 307491870 Origin of Species EVOLUTION Thomas Huxley Essays Darwin Philosophy Science "Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once." – Thomas Huxley Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution moral philosophy and scientific ethics. This rare 1870 printing of Huxley's reaction to Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' fully supported many of Darwin's evolutionary theories. Item number: #30749 Price: $499 HUXLEY Thomas Henry On the origin of species: or The causes of the phenomena of organic nature. A course of six lectures to working men. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1870. 1st American edition Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->150 6 <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->5 in-text figures <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Bookplate – James P. Marsh <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Cloth <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 5.25in 20.5cm x 13cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 30749 Photos available upon request. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1863rif. 00009562New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 5 4-150 8 including 6 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements pp. Dark green pebbled cloth with paper label on the spine light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A few in-text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary owner's name and date written on free front endpaper George R. Brush a surgeon in the US Navy from the time of the Civil War until his death in 1895 tiny collector's sticker on the front pastedown and a brief inscription on the final page indicating Brush completed reading the book on May 29 1865 on board the steamship Guatemala near Puntarenas with Professor Seebach on board Karl von Seebach was a well-known geologist at Gottingen who published work on Central American volcanos and was presumably returning from the extended trip he made to perform this research. ADB: Seebach Karl Albert Ludwig von; Oxford DNB Adrian Desmond "Huxley Thomas Henry"; Suffolk County News New York March 7 1902 p. 3. Huxley was an early advocate of Darwinism and in fact was the first to use the term 'Darwinism' and did much to popularize and support the theory of evolution in the nineteenth century. The present work is based on lectures delivered by Huxley during the period 1860 - 1863 in which he explained Darwin's ideas to a more popular audience. An attractive copy of this book from an important period in the history of science. A Very Good volume with toning to the first and final blank leaves a few traces of minor discoloration to the cloth and darkening and a tiny bit of loss to the spine label. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1895rif. 10178NHNew York: D. Appleton and Company 1895. 150 pp. Original dark orange cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Corners bumped. Wear to spine ends. Contents very nice. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover
1863rif. 23369New York: D. Appleton and Company 1863. Cloth. Very Good. The 1863 1st American edition. Tight and VG in its original light-brown pebbled boards with peeling and wear at the spine's paper title label all-but-unreadable and very light soiling to the panels. Internally the pages are crisp and bright but there is light staining at the inner hinges and along the edges of the pastedowns and endsheets. Octavo 150 pgs. plus publisher's ads. at the rear. Huxley's response --in the form of six lectures-- to the 1859 publication of Darwin's beyond-seminal text "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century D. Appleton and Company unknown
rif. 1330345371.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 0331670003.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover