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1872Best.-Nr. feb027371872. First Italian Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin. Viaggio di un naturalista intorno al mondo Used book For more details and availability please contact me Torinese hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. feb027301891. First Dutch Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin. De reis van de "Beagle" Used book For more details and availability please contact me E & M Cohen hardcover
1870Best.-Nr. feb823921870: RARE Russian Second Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex in 2 Volumes 1870 1871 ПутешеÑтвие вокруг Ñвета на корабле Used. For more details please contact me St. Petersburg hardcover
Best.-Nr. 15834London Henry Colburn 1839; Smith Elder 1842; Longman Green 1865; John Murray 1859-1881 REPRINT Bruxelles Culture et Civilisation 1969-1970. 11 volumes in 13. 8vo 21.5 x 14.0 cm. In full mock leather. Spines with gilt title. = This is a seldom-seen complete set of all the books - or book chapters - written by Darwin in facsimile reprint edition of which even single issues are uncommon. It comprises of the following works: On the origin of species by means of natural selection 1859; Journal of researches into geology and natural history 1839; The structure and distribution of coral reefs 1842; On the movement and habits of climbing plants 1865; The variation of animals and plants under domestication in two volumes 1868; The descent of man and selections in relation to sex. With illustrations in two volumes 1871; The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1872; Insectivorous plants 1875; The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species 1877; The power of movement in plants 1880; and The formation of vegetable mould 1881. A fine clean set. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 64765-V2-3Joh. IJkema Delft 1872. Eerste Nederlandse druk. 2 linnen stempelbanden. Opnieuw gebonden het originele linnen meegebonden. Met 128 houtsneefiguren. XII 536 VIII 540 4 pp. -Het linnen heeft slijtage langs de randen 2 namen in inkt op beide titelpagina's wat roest op de pagina's redelijke exemplaren. A rare first Dutch edition of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' published simultaneously with the22 English original part 1 probably being a second version of the first edition other publications have 1871 in stead of our 1872 stated. Translator Dr. Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen himself a scientist of international fame provided commentary during his translation. Darwin used them in the next revised edition. With the errata at the end of vol. II. Joh. IJkema, Delft, 1872 unknown
1877Best.-Nr. 94481Paris, C. Reinwald, 1877, in-8, XXIII-540 pp, 24 pp. de cat. éd, Percaline verte de l'éditeur [Lenègre], 30 figures sur bois dans le texte. Première édition française traduite par Ed. Barbier, précédée d'une introduction biographique et augmentée de notes par Charles Martins. Charles Darwin, qui faisait l'analogie entre les règnes végétal et animal, a consacré aux plantes plusieurs grandes monographies. L'observation du végétal lui a permis de déduire des phénomènes de changement et donc de développer la théorie transformiste. Légers frottements, coins usés, petits accrocs sur le plat inférieur, cote manuscrite en pied du dos. Rousseurs claires en début et en fin d'ouvrage. Bon exemplaire. Couverture rigide
1887Best.-Nr. 94486John Murray, 1887, in-8, 3 vol, 3 portraits-front, IX-[1]-395-[1] pp, 1 pl. + [4]-393-[1] pp, 1 pl. + IV-418 pp, Demi-veau rouge à coins, dos lisses et filetés, tranches rouges, Papillon d'erratum au T. I (devant la p. 1). Vie et correspondance de Charles Darwin (1809-1882) par son fils Francis (1845-1925). Seconde édition, parue la même année que l'originale. Francis Darwin, botaniste spécialisé en physiologie végétale, collabora avec son père à partir de 1875, notamment pour la rédaction de The Power of Movement in Plants (1880). Il enseigna à Cambridge à partir de 1884 et y occupa la chaire de botanique de 1888 à 1904. Petites rousseurs, pages légèrement jaunies. Petits accrocs aux dos. Bon exemplaire. Couverture rigide
1878Best.-Nr. 171087La petite lune La petite lune, 1878 - 1879. Paris, 5 Rue Coq-Héron. Ensemble de 53 numéros de 4 pages illustrées en couleurs par André Gill. Comprenant du n°1 au n° 52 (fin de parution). Le n°46 est manquant. Les n°13 et 14 sont en double. "Petit hebdomadaire illustré fondé et dessiné par André Gill (La Lune, La Lune rousse, L'Eclipse), résolument républicain et anticlérical. Comprend 52 numéros. Se réjouit des progrès électoraux de la République et fête les héros anticléricaux comme Gambetta, Ferry, Marianne et Renan... Disparait en 1879. Les premiers succès de La Petite Lune convainquent Alfred Le Petit de fonder à son tour le Sans-Culotte". André Gill, pseudonyme de Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines, né à Paris le 17 octobre 1840 et mort à l'asile de Charenton à Saint-Maurice, le 1er mai 1885, est un caricaturiste, artiste peintre et chansonnier français. Peu courant. Bon état
2007Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780387713571SPRINGER 2007. HB. New. SPRINGER hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780387713571SPRINGER 2007. HB. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. 2200159Oblong 8vo pp. 4 with nine anastatic plates by 'V H D'arwin the first folding and with poetic verses facing two leaves of introduction in the original publisher's bind stamped green cloth upper board lettered in gilt inner joints lightly cracked else a very good sound copy. Published to capitalise on the infamous Tichborne case then beginning to run its course through the courts. The poem recounts the history of the Tichborne dole of bread a charity festival active until the 1790's and held at the village of Tichborne in Hampshire during the Feast of the Annunciation. The tale concerns a curse by twelfth century Lady Mabella Tichborne on her descendants. This predicted that should the dole stop the family would produce only daughters and die out which indeed did happen with the male issue cut down by early death and shipwreck all of which paved the way to the interminable Tichborne claimant cause. The illustrations are very clearly in the style of Richard Doyle's The Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe which first appeared in Punch in 1849 they capture many of the more absurd parts of the tale in a mock medieval manuscript technique replete with a border of a dragon. The illustrator Violetta Harriot Darwin 1826-1880 was a half cousin to the famous Charles both sharing Erasmus Darwin as a grandfather. Although Charles descended through Erasmus' first wife Polly and Violetta through his second wife Elizabeth the cousins despite being near contemporaries appear to have had very little contact. A number of Violetta's anastactic topographical views were published in the 1860's and her illustrated version of Southey's Bishop Hatto: a legend of the Mouse-Tower on the Rhine in 1861 but these are both in a quite different style. The author of the poems Lord Nugent unlike many of the Grenville clan supported the cause of anti-slavery parliamentary reform religious liberty penal reform and the amelioration of the condition of the rural poor. He also inherited an aptitude for literary and scholarly pursuits as well as their tendency to corpulence and financial ineptitude. He was not a great poet however some of his smaller works found a willing space in the 'Annuals'. Under the less antiquated title 'The Dole of Tichborne' the poem first appeared first in the 1830 volume of The Gem. OCLC records only a second edition at the National library of Wales only. Bemrose and Sons
1845Best.-Nr. A63207London: John Murray 1845. viii 519 1 14 text figs. . HB. Small 8vo 178x124mm rebound in antique-style half calf spine with raised bands gilt rules blind stamped floral motifs to compartments leather title piece marbled boards. Occasional light foxing/spotting. Vg. Second edition corrected with additions. Taken from Darwin's journals while on the H.M.S. Beagle these notes form a background for ideas he would later develop in On the Origin of Species while also serving as an excellent travel narrative of the voyage around South America New Zealand and Australia as well as the famous survey of the Galapagos Islands.Freeman 14. John Murray hardcover
1873Best.-Nr. 8223London: John Murray 1873. 8vo pp. xxi i 458 folding diagram. Ads at rear discarded. Original green cloth boards blocked with a simple frame in blind spine lettered in gilt. A little spotting a few marginal pencil marks and minor dampmarks. Sometime neatly rebacked preserving most of original cloth. Ink ownership insciption to title-page dated 26/5/75 in Calcutta later ownership stamp to contents page. John Murray hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. 2602020032D. Appleton and Company 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Includes the first appearance of the word "evolution" in any of Darwin's works. 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's russet cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. 4 vi 409 3. Slight bubble on front cover of v.1 but near fine besides. 'The word 'evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of The origin of species in the following year.' Freeman 941. "In the Origin Darwin had avoided discussing the place occupied by Homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection stating only that 'life will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' Twelve years later he made good his promise with The Descent of Man in which he compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes. In discussing man's ancestry Darwin did not claim that man was directly descended from apes as we know them today but stated simply that the extent ancestors of Homo sapiens would have to be classified among the primates; however this statement as misinterpreted by the popular press caused a furor second only to that raised by the Origin" Norman 599. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 324832London: Hotel Cecil. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Closed tears on spine crown and heel. Hotel Cecil hardcover
1876Best.-Nr. 4345Half polished calf; marbled boards & endpapers; five raised bands; ruled black morocco label to spine. Three line errata slip facing p.viii. Wear to head of spine & corners see images otherwise a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. viii 482 John Murray hardcover
1884Best.-Nr. 12288London: John Murray 1884. Octavo 7.75 x 5.25" green cloth with gilt spine lettering xxi 1 458 pp. Sixth Edition with editions and corrections to 1872 Twenty-Sixth Thousand. An early edition of this classic. An attractive copy with wear to corners mild fraying to spine tips slight discoloration to covers bit of rubbing and soiling to endpapers rear endpaper lacking owner inscription to front endpaper. John Murray hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. 40592New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1871. Fifth Edition with Additions and Corrections. Octavo original brown blind stamped pebbled cloth. Very Good with light edge wear including lightly bumped spine ends and a short abrasion on the side of the spine. D. Appleton and Co. hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 69842New York: D. Appleton and Company 1889. Hardcover. Good. Third edition with an appendix by Prof. T.G. Bonney D.Sc. F.R.S. F.G.S. 344 p. with three folding plates and the publisher's ads. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with decorative gilt and black stamping. An ex-library copy with minimal markings: a bookplate to the front pastedown and a small numeric label to the spine. Minor creases to the folding plates. The top edge is a trifle dust stained with some mild foxing to the fore-edge. There is also a small bit of rubbing to the corners and tips. From the library of the esteemed American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002. In his essay "Worm for a Century" from the collection Hen's Teeth and Horse's Teeth: Further Reflections in Natural History 1983 Gould argued that this Darwin's first book on a specific subject is essential to understanding his theoretical approach: "This book is about coral but it is also about historical reasoning. Vegetable mold formed fast enough to measure its rate directly; we capture the past by summing effects of small and observable present causes. But what if rates are too slow or scales too large to render history by direct observation of present processes For such cases we must develop a different method. Since large-scale processes begin at different times and proceed at diverse rates the varied stages of different examples should exist simultaneously in the present. To establish history in such cases we must construct a theory that will explain a series of present phenomena as stages of a single historical process. The method is quite general. Darwin used it to explain the formation of coral reefs. We invoke it today to infer the history of stars. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1868Best.-Nr. 157199London: John Murray Titles state 1868. First Edition second issue. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols.: viii 411 32; viii 486 2 p. 23 cm. 43 b&w illustrations in vol. I. Original publisher's green cloth with blank impressing on boards gilt on spine. Corners worn some dents to edges softening to spine ends stains and rubbing to cloth. Vol. II has scuff on lower spine. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Endpapers at front have stuck together in vol. II and were formerly stuck in vol. I; the latter has scuffs at front. Light stains to vol. I bottom edge. 32 p. publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. I dated February 1871. 2 p. publisher's list at rear of vol. II dated February 1868. One line Erratum to vol. I and no errata to vol. II. Incudes the first appearance of the phrase "survival of the fittest" in any of Darwin's works on p. 6 of vol. I where he gives credit for the phrase to Herbert Spencer. A large part of the book contains discussion of artificial selection and pangenesis the mechanism he suggested to explain heredity. John Murray hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 38839Wellington NZ: Nova Pacifica 1980. Darwin Charles 1809-82 ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols. 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates incl. color. Wellington New Zealand: Nova Pacifica 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" "Publisher's Note". Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica unknown
1877Best.-Nr. 14434London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1877. FIRST EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Charles Edward Fewster of Hull. First printing of Darwin’s original paper discussing sexual selection in his 1871 work Descent of man stating that the case of the “brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkeys” was the most interesting and perplexing to him. He quotes a work by Johan von Fischer partly published in Der zool. Garten. April 1876 dealing with the expression of monkeys under various emotions “which is well worthy of study by any one interested in the subject.” An interesting article on an interesting subject. Also included in this volume are two reviews of Darwin books as follows: 1 Review of the second edition of Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America London Smith Elder and Co. 1876 by John W. Judd. pp. 289-290; and 2 Review of The effects of cross- and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom London Murray 1876 by W. T. Thiselton Dyer pp. 329-332. In addition there are two testimonials to Darwin. The first p. 356 is a testimonial on Darwin’s sixty-ninth birthday a mistake in that he was sixty-eight in February 1877 from a group of 154 men of science of Germany presenting to him an album of their photographs. Darwin also received an album with the photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science from Holland. The second testimonial pp. 410-412 comes from Prof. P. Harting of Utrecht University also on the occasion of Darwin’s birthday who has sent a letter along with the photograph album referred to above from the Directors of the Netherlands Zoological Society and includes Darwin’s reply. The volume includes articles by many of the most important scientists of the day. Freeman 1773; Freeman 1776. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 38839Wellington NZ: Nova Pacifica 1980. Darwin Charles 1809-82 ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols. 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates incl. color. Wellington New Zealand: Nova Pacifica 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" "Publisher's Note". Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica unknown books
1877Best.-Nr. 14434London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1877. FIRST EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Charles Edward Fewster of Hull. First printing of Darwin’s original paper discussing sexual selection in his 1871 work Descent of man stating that the case of the “brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkeys” was the most interesting and perplexing to him. He quotes a work by Johan von Fischer partly published in Der zool. Garten. April 1876 dealing with the expression of monkeys under various emotions “which is well worthy of study by any one interested in the subject.” An interesting article on an interesting subject. Also included in this volume are two reviews of Darwin books as follows: 1 Review of the second edition of Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America London Smith Elder and Co. 1876 by John W. Judd. pp. 289-290; and 2 Review of The effects of cross- and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom London Murray 1876 by W. T. Thiselton Dyer pp. 329-332. In addition there are two testimonials to Darwin. The first p. 356 is a testimonial on Darwin’s sixty-ninth birthday a mistake in that he was sixty-eight in February 1877 from a group of 154 men of science of Germany presenting to him an album of their photographs. Darwin also received an album with the photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science from Holland. The second testimonial pp. 410-412 comes from Prof. P. Harting of Utrecht University also on the occasion of Darwin’s birthday who has sent a letter along with the photograph album referred to above from the Directors of the Netherlands Zoological Society and includes Darwin’s reply. The volume includes articles by many of the most important scientists of the day. Freeman 1773; Freeman 1776. Macmillan and Co. unknown books
1877Best.-Nr. 50988Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1877. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original publisher's embossed full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Small red label pasted on to top left corner of inner front board. Light brownspots throughout. XV, (1), 496, (2) pp.
