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1981ref. 11834New York: St. Martin's 1981. Hardcover. 1st U.S. edition 1st printing. 333 pp. Bibliography index. Fine book no markings; several very light moisture marks to light blue topstain on textblock / Very Good dust jacket price not clipped; 1/2" tear and crease to top edge of rear dust jacket panel light edgewear. A clean solid copy. St. Martin's hardcover
2008ref. 996B37Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008; 2009. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Not Stated. Pristine set of illustrated Cambridge University Press first editions on the letters and notebooks written by Charles Darwin on his famous "Beagle" voyage. Set of two first-edition Cambridge University Press volumes on Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.Collection comprised of:2008 Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters by Frederick Buckhardt;2009 Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters is bound in the publisher's original cloth with an unclipped dustwrapper. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle is the publisher's original hardback edition.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters contains a frontispiece six double-sided colour plates and twelve double-sided monochrome plates. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle contains seven pages of plates to the front of the work and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. Collated complete.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters features an introduction from Janet Browne.A collection of the notebooks and letters kept by Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the Beagle taken between December 1831 and October 1836 when Darwin was twenty-two years old. Darwin's travels inspired his 1839 book The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters is bound in the publisher's original cloth with an unclipped dustwrapper. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle is the publisher's original hardback edition. Externally lovely condition with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper features marginally more bumping and rubbing especially to the top edge. With the odd mark. Internally firmly bound. Very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine Cambridge University Press hardcover
1901ref. 797A18London: John Murray 1901. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5" . Not Stated . A new edition of this important work by Charles Darwin which applies the evolutionary theory to human evolution. With illustrations. Charles Darwin applies the evolutionary theory to human evolution in this important volume. A new edition. Originally published in 1871. With the preface to the second edition.Here Darwin also details his theory of sexual selection a form of biological adaptation interconnected with natural selection. Discussing many related issues such as evolutionary psychology ethics musicology and differences between human races sexes the dominant role of women in mate choice and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society. Illustrated with numerous figures in text. With an extensive Index to the rear. Complete with half title. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. General minor soiling to the boards. Internally firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the fore edge affecting only the occasional page. Generally the leaves appear bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with numerous figures in text. Very Good Indeed John Murray hardcover
1891ref. 16847John Murray london 1891. Book Hardcover. Good. F1256. Endpapers splitting at front and at rear hinges. Spine bumped and cloth worn along spine edge. Small crease top corner otherwise very good. John Murray, london hardcover
1994ref. mon0000079071Gryphon Editions 1994. Leather. Like New. in x in x in. Gryphon Editions hardcover
1884ref. C214838New York: J. Fitzgerald 1884. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 2 parts from the Humbolt Library periodical bound in one. 130 131-253pp. Bound in black cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight rubbing fading and marks to covers otherwise very good. Name and blind-stamp to endpaper. J. Fitzgerald, hardcover
1927ref. 9343The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. Large oblong 8vo. 10.2 x 7.7 inches. Finely illustrated with line drawing on the title page and 20 full page colour lithographs by Elinor Darwin accompanying the verses of Bernard Darwin. Original beige paper covered boards with wave fish and border decorations and reproduction of one of the book's illustrations in blue on front cover. A very good bright and clean copy with small amount of chipping to the top of the spine and minimal rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927 hardcover
ref. PJH50179Palgrave Macmillan 1981. Ownership Inscription Historian Andrew Porter on endpaper VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition 1st issue. ISBN 0333270738 Palgrave Macmillan 1981 hardcover
1925ref. 5389London: The Nonesuch Press 1925. Oblong 4to. n.d. 1925 . unnumbered. 45 leaves including 22 splendid full page colour illustrations. In the original light brown paper cover boards with red decoration to the spine and corners and a large blind stamped red medallion of 'Mr Tootleoo and the cockyolly birds' ' six shillings'. The head and tail of the spine have been crushed with a little loss and there is a general overall toning. However this is a very good copy of an uncommon title. Bernard Darwin was grandson of Charles Darwin; he was a golf writer and good amateur golfer. . Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. 1925. The Nonesuch Press [1925] hardcover
1889ref. DARWINCH007633Ward Lock London. 1889. Sixth edition of the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845. Issued in the Minerva Library of Famous Book series. Biographical Introduction by G.T. Bettany. Octavo. pp xx 381. 14 adverts. Illustrations. Original olive-green cloth. Very good indeed. Ward Lock, London. hardcover
2009ref. 12227Cambridge; Cambridge University Press 2009. 2009. Paperback. Eight volumes octavo: pp. xxix 3 702; xxxiii 5 6033; xxix 123 1; xxxiii 3 711 3; xxix 3 705 3; xxix 3 672 4; xxxv 3 671 3; xxxvii 3 766 4. Publishers' pictorial cream card wraps. Numerous pedigrees and monochrome illustrations including frontispiece to each volume. Complete in eight volumes. Single spine crease and corner crease to lower wrap of Volume I only otherwise covers clean and bright. No annotation or inscriptions- a Near Fine set. Award-winning edition of Darwin's letters making available for the first time the full authoritative texts of all known letters written both from and to Charles Darwin from 1821 to 1860 the latter period dominated by response to the publication of "On the Origin of Species". Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009. paperback
ref. 69972Natural history Darwin & evolution . Pub. D. Appleton & Co. 1871. pp.vi 409 with b/w. figs. plus 2-page of Appleton adverts to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Vol. I only. With exception of a couple of very trivial imperfections the contents are exceptionally clean and in fine condition. Original decorated cloth boards lightly marked and in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. This copy also has a 4-page D. Appleton & Co. advert for their new edition of The Origin of Species neatly tipped to the ffep. which provides background to the books original publication and its subsequent acceptance or not including a statement by Alfred Russel Wallace taken from his own work. Further statements follow from Prof. T.H. Huxley Sir Charles Lyell and Prof. Geikie amongst others and very interestingly a review of the acceptance of Darwins theories of natural selection in the UK USA and Germany. Controversially received like Origin of Species before it the word evolution occurs here for the first time in any of Darwins works. Natural history Darwin & evolution hardcover
1891ref. 104451John Murray London. 1891. John Murray London. 1891. Second edition revised and augmented. Hardbacks NO DWs. TWO VOLUMES. Pale blue cloth boards are rubbed along edges. Head and tail of spines are crumpled and corners are rubbed. Ownership signature in pen to both title pages over the title. Inner hinge of volume one is cracked. Page edges slightly rough cut and browned. Overall two nice clean copies. hardcover
1889ref. 51986London: Smith Elder and Co. 1889. Third edition 8vo xx 344 4 advertisement pp. Three folding maps. Original green cloth spine and part of lower cover damp stained. Freeman 277. London: Smith, Elder and Co. unknown
1900ref. 003924Original signed note. DARWIN Francis 1848-1925. Autograph Postcard Signed addressed to L. Cohen 14 Balham Park Road London SW. Camberley postmark 7 July 1900. 115 x 90 mm postcard with manuscript message to the correspondence side and address panel to reverse franked. Light handling wear otherwise very good. An interesting botanical note concerning the identity of the Irish shamrock. Responding to an enquiry Darwin cites Prior's Popular Names of British Plants and explains that "Shamrock means in Gaelic a small trefoil". He continues by observing that it is "impossible to say that it is any particular species of Trifolium" adding that "Dutch clover is commonly sold as shamrock". The note touches upon a long-standing botanical question namely the precise plant represented by Ireland's national emblem. Francis Darwin 1848-1925 botanist and son of Charles Darwin was a Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge and a leading authority on plant physiology. A desirable Francis Darwin autograph with scientific content relating to the identification of the shamrock. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1900. Original signed note paperback
1887ref. S15195London: John Murray 1887. ix 1 395 mis-numbered 539 2; iv 393 2; iv 418 2 3 portrait frontispieces 1 plate 3 text illus. . HB. 3 vols 8vo orig. cloth spines faded lettering dull some staining. Good set from an institutional library with small labels removed from spines; ink stamps of the Royal Army Medical College library to endpapers title pages and verso of frontispieces marked in ms 'The Fayrer Gift'; also with ink stamp of the Zoological Society of London marked withdrawn. Lengthy inscription to Sir Joseph Fayrer F.R.S. to endpaper of Vol. I 'from his very old friends at Oakfield Lodge . Denmark Hill 23rd January 1888'. Sir Joseph Fayrer 1824-1907 was a British physician who served as Surgeon General in India. He is noted for his writings on medicine work on public health including the official investigation on cholera and his studies on snakes and the treatment of snakebite in India including his classic Thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula with an Account of the Influence of Their Poison on Life 1874. Fifth thousand revised with errata corrected second issue of the first edition published in the same year as the first. Complete in 3 volumes. Freeman 1453. John Murray hardcover
2022ref. BN219963LEGARE STREET PR 2022. 2022. Softcover. La Faculté Motrice Dans Les Plantes. La Faculté Motrice Dans Les Plantes. Charles Darwin LEGARE STREET PR paperback
2016ref. BN235582PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT 2016. 2016. On the Origin of Species On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT paperback
2008ref. BN120699Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft wbg 2008. 2008. Hardcover. Über die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und-Pflanzenreich durch natürliche Züchtung oder Erhaltung der vervollkomneten Rassen im Kampfe um´s Daseyn Über die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und-Pflanzenreich durch natürliche Züchtung oder Erhaltung der vervollkomneten Rassen im Kampfe um´s Daseyn Charles Darwin Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) hardcover
2018ref. BN396918Slovart 2018. 2018. Hardcover. Harley-Davidson: Kompletní historie Harley-Davidson: Kompletní historie Darwin Holmstrom Slovart hardcover
ref. BN295906Delius Klasing Vlg Gmbh Delius Klasing & Co. Hardcover. The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Darwin Holmstrom Delius Klasing Vlg Gmbh, Delius, Klasing & Co. hardcover
ref. BN307443Frommer's Rome Frommer's Rome Darwin Porter unknown
1982ref. BN131035The American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG Tulsa Oklahoma 1982. 1982. Sandstone Depositional Environments. = AAPG Memoir - Volume 31. Sandstone Depositional Environments. = AAPG Memoir - Volume 31. Scholle Peter A. and Darwin Spearing The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Tulsa (Oklahoma) unknown
1973ref. BN132815John Wiley & Sons New York 1973. 1973. Energy Structure and Reactivity. Proceedings of the 1972 Boulder Summer Research Conference on Theoretical Chemistry. Energy Structure and Reactivity. Proceedings of the 1972 Boulder Summer Research Conference on Theoretical Chemistry. Smith Darwin W. und Walter McRae Editors John Wiley & Sons, New York unknown
ref. 6567473Cambridge University Press CUP . Papeback. New. pp. 468 Cambridge University Press CUP unknown