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Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780333292563Red Globe Press. Hardback. New. 400 pages Red Globe Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9780333292563Red Globe Press. Hardback. New. 400 pages Red Globe Press hardcover
1862Best.-Nr. 020463London: John Murray 1862. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. vi 365 pages indexed illustrated plus 32 pages of other John Murray publications. Brown cloth with gilt flower on front panel. The boards: The spine strip is badly damaged with loss along the edge and tail; the front board wears the remnants of a label and the edges are chipped. Internally: there are two handwritten numbers on the head of the spine strip the top one crossed out the second repeated on the verso of the front end paper; the front end paper and the following blank page are partially detached; there are a series of ownership inscriptions - a stamp on the front end paper; three on the title page as well as two more interspersed along the page's blank edge and o plus a handwritten one again on the title page. One of the ownership stamps is superimposed on an association one ECLECTIC ASSOCIATION of VICTORIA the latter with its stamp also on the blank edge of the fold out diagram. Over the date of the handwritten one is a perfect small round ink blob which has seeped onto its verso and beyond that onto the blank head of the Contents page. And finally two tiny l closed closed tear at the head of pp 181 and 183 and well as minute loss on page 183 all of which could be a printer's fault. It is not a pretty copy but beyond the preliminaries it is solidly bound and the print unmarked. First edition of this important work. "Fertilisation of Orchids is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin published on 15 May 1862 under the full explanatory title On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.1 Darwin's previous book On the Origin of Species had briefly mentioned evolutionary interactions between insects and the plants they fertilised and this new idea was explored in detail.The book was his first detailed demonstration of the power of natural selection and explained how complex ecological relationships resulted in the coevolution of orchids and insects. The view has been expressed that the book led directly or indirectly to all modern work on coevolution and the evolution of extreme specialisation." Wikipedia John Murray hardcover
1873Best.-Nr. elala120New York: D.Appleton And Company 1873. 1873. 12mo. pp. vi 1 leaf 374 14ads. 7 heliotype plates 3 foldinng. 21 wood-engraved text illus. 6 full-page. A nice tight copy in original cloth. First American Edition of the foundation work for the sciences of animal behaviour and communication theory. " The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals contains studies of facial muscles and means of expression in man and mammals emission of sounds erection of hair and so forth and their correlation with suffering sobbing anxiety grief despair joy love devotion reflection meditation sulking hatred anger pride disdain shame surprise fear horror acceptance affirmation and rejection negation. With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology animal behaviour and conveyance of information communication theory and made a major contribution to psychology." DSB Freeman 1143. cfGarrison & Morton 4975. 1st Edition. New York: D.Appleton And Company, 1873. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6934Descent Of Man by Charles Darwin in 2 volumes first US edition hardcover Publisher: D. Appleton And Company 1871 Condition: Very Good - some writing on the front end papers otherwise no other writings tight binding D. Appleton And Company hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 140401Philadelphia: Running Press 2005. First edition of this compilation of Charles Darwin's most influential works in their entirety contained for the first time in one volume. Thick Octavo original boards. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by James Watson to his friends on the half-title page "For Peter and Dori from Jim." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Text includes commentary by Nobel laureate James Watson. Included in this volume are four of the most influential works of Charles Darwin reprinted in their entirety each with commentary from Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson. Included are On the Origin of Species arguably the most important scientific work of the nineteenth century; Voyage of the Beagle a captivating travelogue richly stocked with observations that helped guide the young Darwin through his evolutionary world view; The Descent of Man which explored the origins of humans and their history; and The Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals which explored the origin and nature of the mind. With his separate introductions for each of Darwin's books he goes further to explain how the modern considerations underlying genome research would have been impossible without Darwin bringing a contemporary relevance to these nineteenth century masterworks. Running Press hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. 59596D. Appleton 1871-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1871 Appleton 2 volume set first American Edition later issue no errata. Light loss of cloth to corners tiny amount of bookseller marks endpapers text unmarked lightly toned. In original brown cloth decorated bindings. Please email for photos. D. Appleton hardcover
Best.-Nr. thl19New York: D.Appleton and Company 1873. First American Edition of the foundation work for the sciences of animal behaviour and communication theory. ".The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals.contains studies of facial muscles and means of expression in man and mammals emission of sounds erection of hair and so forth and their correlation with suffering sobbing anxiety grief despair joy love devotion reflection meditation sulking hatred anger pride disdain shame surprise fear horror acceptance affirmation and rejection negation. With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology animal behaviour and conveyance of information communication theory and made a major contribution to psychology." DSB Freeman 1143. cfGarrison & Morton 4975. 12mo. pp. vi 374 14ads. 7 heliotype plates 3 folding. 21 wood-engraved text illus. 6 full-page. original cloth spine ends starting to fray a few minor stains on covers. thl19 New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1873 hardcover
1868Best.-Nr. 1224New York: Orange Judd 1868. 1st American Edition. Two volume FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of "ONE OF DARWIN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND WIDE-RANGING BOOKS. IT IS ALSO HIS LONGEST AND MOST DETAILED WORK" Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin 879. It is also "the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponding to its first two intended chapters" ibid. Darwin's intent was "to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. "This work is notable not only for Darwin's prodigious amassing of facts concerning artificial selection of traits to demonstrate an analogy for natural selection. It also advances his hypothesis of pangenesis and gemmules as the agents of the inheritance of characteristics" DSB. Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis "here expounded for the first time" Freeman. Was the by "means of which he tried to frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance inheritance of acquired characters atavism and regeneration. It was a brave attempt to account for a number of phenomena which were beyond the bounds of scientific knowledge in his day such as fertilization by the union of sperm with egg the mechanism of chromosomal inheritance and the development of the embryo by successive cell division. His hypothesis of pangenesis could not therefore give a permanently acceptable account of the multitude of phenomena it was designed to explain. It was however a point of departure for particulate theories of inheritance in the latter nineteenth century' DSB Freeman. "Other chapters consider "the amount and nature of the changes which animals or plants have undergone whilst under man's dominion" employing observations of inheritance within a species in an effort to understand the causes of variability" ibid. While as said Darwin's two volumes "were intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation" they also "incidentally answered Lyell and Gray who maintained that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed. Darwin showed that breeders indeed selected from a vast array of minute random variations. He gave numerous instances of the causes of variability including the direct effect of the conditions of life reversion the effects of use and disuse saltation prepotency and correlated growth" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. CONDITION & DETAILS: Two volumes. Complete. 8vo 18.7 x 12.2 cm. Vol. I: 6 x 494 14 Vol. II: 4viii 568 12. Solidly bound in original publisher's green cloth; gilt-lettered at the spine. Scuffing at the edges with minor chipping at the head and foot of the spine. Clean and bright throughout both volumes. Very good. Orange Judd hardcover
1873Best.-Nr. 63397The Hague, Joh. Ykema, 1873. 8vo. In the original publisher's embossed full red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Previous owner's name to front end-paper. Small stain to front board and back board miscoloured, internally fine and clean copy. IX, (1), 435 pp. + 7 plates.-
1873Best.-Nr. 63397The Hague Joh. Ykema 1873. 8vo. In the original publisher's embossed full red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Previous owner's name to front end-paper. Small stain to front board and back board miscoloured internally fine and clean copy. IX 1 435 pp. 7 plates.- The rare first Dutch translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man published the year after the original. The Expression of the Emotions "is an important member of the evolutionary set and it was written in part at least as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment." Freeman p. 142. Darwin concluded that "the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited."Freeman 1182. hardcover
1873Best.-Nr. 1738850614ADAJohn Murray 1873. Hardcover. Good. 1873. 6th Edition With Add. 458 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. This book has been re-bound. Includes Historical Sketch and Introduction to front and Glossary to rear. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Thumb-marking present including to text block fore-edge. Pencil annotations and marginalia to some pages. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Marble patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright. John Murray hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 53518London John Murray 1888. 2 volumes complete set second edition revised sixth thousand 1888. 8vo 190 x 120 mm 7½ x 5 inches VOLUME I: pages: xiv 473 plus 1 page with printer's details 43 text illustrations; VOLUME II: pages: x 495 plus 32 pages of adverts dated February 1888. Original publisher's dark green cloth gilt lettering to spines gilt decoration to head and tail of spine small gilt ornament under the author's name blind rules to covers original brown endpapers. Spines and corners slightly bumped head and tail of spine slightly rubbed inner hinge of Volume I partly cracked Volume II partly unopened at rear pale fox spots to endpapers of Volume I light shelf wear to edges of covers tips of 2 corners missing in Volume II not affecting text bookplate of Adrian Leonard Moreton pasted over another bookplate on first pastedown and bookseller's tiny label at foot. A very good tight clean set. See Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin page 124 No. 889. "The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875 and this was the final text and later issues to 1899 are from stereos". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, John Murray, 1888. hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. AQ25484New York: Appleton and Company 1871. 447pp 9. With a folding table. Original publisher's printed brown cloth boards tooled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked with chipping to head and foot of spine edges of boards slightly toned spine dulled. Leaves lightly browned occasional light spotting. The fifth edition with additions and corrections of Charles Darwin's 1809-1882 seminal work. Considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology The Origin of Species introduces the theory of natural selection which states that species populations alter and diversify over generations - branching out from a shared common ancestor. 1871 proved a vexing year for Darwin as he received persistent criticism from zoologist St George Jackson Mivart who in his Genesis of Species 1871 accused Darwin among other allegations of being 'Dogmatic' in his assertions. In response Darwin who struggled to remain even- tempered in conversations with his rival gathered a selection of material to refute Mivart's claims; the revised sixth edition of the Origin of Species published the following year contained supporting research from Alexander Agassiz Abraham Dee Bartlett Albert Günther George Busk T. H. Huxley Osbert Salvin and William Henry. Freeman F390b. Fifth edition with additions and corrections. 8vo. Appleton and Company hardcover
1878Best.-Nr. 2930793John Murray 1878. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Second edition. Medium 8vo with green cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Minimal foxing on some pages including title page. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
1872Best.-Nr. A49201London: John Murray 1872. vi 374 4 ads 7 plates 3 folding 21 text figs. . HB. 8vo orig. cloth rebacked with original backstrip retained gt title to spine. Ownership stamp to endpaper and title page W.T. Woods Ashridge Forty Hill. One folding plate slightly creased at outer margin and lightly foxed to folds. Advert leaves at end untidily opened to top blank margin. Good. First edition second issue with three leaves of prelims the third leaf signed b; the last 2 signatures 2B1 2C4 with 2B1 and 2C1 and 2C2 signed; 'that' incorrectly spelt 'htat' on page 208. Freeman notes that the plates are found in two states in the first two issues of the text either numbered with roman or arabic numerals. In this copy they are arabic numerals. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animalswas Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory following On the Origin of Species 1859 and The Descent of Man 1871. In this work Darwin explores the biological aspects of emotional behaviour and the animal origins of human emotional expression. To illustrate human emotion Darwin used photographs by five different photographers most notably Oscar Gustave Rejlander 1813�1875 who contributed 19 of the 30 photographs. The heliotype plates are among the earliest commercially reproduced photographs in a scientific book.Freeman 1142. John Murray hardcover
1875Best.-Nr. BCNH2005This copy represents the first printing of the extensively altered second edition containing Darwin's finalized text and definitive presentation of his provisional theory of pangenesis. A handsome tight and highly well-preserved set. Spines slightly bumped and rubbed at the head and tail with minor shelf-wear to the corner tips. Interior textblock is notably clean and bright; gilt on spines remains strong and vivid. Inner hinges remain intact and firm. A highly collectible set of a foundational evolutionary text. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover
1875Best.-Nr. 75303in 2 vols vol 1 xiv 1-473 pages vol 2 x 1-495 pages contains 43 black and white figures Published by John Murray hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 33339London: John Murray 1892. An early reprinting of the first edition of 1872 the eleventh thousand. Well decorated with 21 illustrations throughout the text and with 7 Heliotype Plates from photographs. 8vo publisher's original dark green cloth lettered decorated and ruled in gilt on spine and with ornately framed borders on the upper cover and on the lower cover in blind. viii 394 pp. A beautifully preserved copy internally fine the binding very bright and clean and very solid and sturdy with the hinges in good order the colour holding strong with no hint of fading a small chip to the free-fly and a few spots to the pastedowns. A HANDSOME COPY FRESH AND FINE AND UNUSUALLY SO FOR ANY 19TH CENTURY PRINTING OF DARWIN. This is an important volume of Darwin's evolutionary writings and was written in part at least as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment. It was more importantly along with his 1871 book ‘The Descent of Man’ part of Darwin's attempt to address questions of human origins and human psychology using his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin noted the universal nature of facial expressions in the book: ".the young and the old of widely different races both with man and animals express the same state of mind by the same movements. John Murray hardcover
1877Best.-Nr. 33614London: John Murray 1877. Second edition revised. With numerous illustrations. 8vo publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and blocked in blind on the covers. xvi 300 Index 32 ads. pp. A handsome and pleasing copy bright and clean and beautifully preserved. EARLY PRINTING IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION. One of Darwin's most important but often overlooked works. The LIFE AND LETTERS of Darwin III p. 274 quotes Asa Gray as saying that "if the Orchid-book with a few trifling omissions had appeared before the 'Origin' the author would have been canonised rather than anathematised by the natural theologians" and noted that a review in the 'Literary Churchman' found only one fault "that Mr. Darwin's expression of admiration at the contrivances in orchids is too indirect a way of saying 'O Lord how manifold are Thy works.'" The book was concerned with working out in detail the relationships between sexual structures of orchids and the insects which fertilize them their evolution being attributed to natural selection and therefore was the first of the volumes of "supporting evidence" for his ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Although it was praised highly by botanists it did not sell well only about 6000 copies by the turn of the century. John Murray hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. 57522BB3 Bände. London, John Murray, 1887. Gross-8°. IX, 3 n.n. S., 539 (recte 395) S.; 2 Bl.,393 S.; IV, 418 S. Mit 3 Frontispiz, 1 Faksimile und Illustrationen im Text. Originalleinwandbände.
1875Best.-Nr. 20770Schweizerbart Stuttgart 1875 1875. Oln. 12 Bände. in gutem Zustand AZC17. HC Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1875, unknown
1887Best.-Nr. feb584941887:First German Edition of Autobiography in 3 Volumes bounded into one by Charles Darwin Used. For more details please contact me E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagshandlung hardcover
1878Best.-Nr. feb1184571878: First French Edition of Different Forms of Flowers by Charles Darwin Des différentes formes de fleurs dans les plantes de la même espèce Used. For more details please contact me C. Reinwald hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. feb026751950. First Russian Edition of Fertilisation of Orchids by Charles Darwin. Опыление орхидей наÑекомыми Used book For more details and availability please contact me Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences hardcover