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1896Best.-Nr. 020049New York: D. Appleton. Authorized Edition. Half-bound in rust leather and marbled paper-covered boards. Slight chipping at head of spine two very small spots on spine Very Good. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1896. D. Appleton hardcover
1891Best.-Nr. 26064London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. Lacking blank leaf following front free endpaper and lacking half-title leaf. Previous owner's name on title page J. Brydon Speedy. Small bruise and 9mm crease to lower corner of front board. Cloth boards clean and bright. ; Fifth thousand. iii-ix 1 errata 208 pages. 13 in-text illustrations. Lacking initial blank leaf and half-title leaf. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine Blind-stamped panel pattern on boards. Page dimensions: 190 x 124mm. "This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the 'Journal of the Linnean Society' published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a correcte d and I hope clearer form with some additional facts." - Preface. Contents: Twining Plants; Leaf-Climbers; Tendril-Bearers; Tendril-Bearers continued; Hook and Root-Climbers - Concluding Remarks; Index. Reference: Freeman 846 . John Murray hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 14728New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co 1920. Hardcover. Octavo red cloth with gilt design to cover titles to spine gilt protrait frontis. A very nice vintage copy of Darwin's most important work. Pages toned with inscription to front endpaper spine cloth toned discoloration spotting to cloth of both covers else a good copy. Thomas Y. Crowell Co hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 12527New York: American Publisher's Corporation 1905. Hardcover. Octavo 8 x 5.25 purple cloth with gilt decoration 2 xix 501 1 pp. . A vintage copy of this classic. A nice copy with mild wear and scuffing to covers fading to spine. American Publisher's Corporation hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 008565New York: Modern Library 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First Modern Library Edition stated on copyright page. A fine copy bright and clean inside and out with a couple of tiny spots to the maroon top stain. In a very good dust jacket with slight loss at the extremities. An attractive copy. Modern Library hardcover
1896Best.-Nr. 72394New York: D. Appleton & Company. VG. 1896. Leather Bound. Hardbacks in Very Good condition without dust jackets. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 970 pages. Bound in 3/4 leather. Some uncut pages . Quick shipping excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 5rvJohn Murray London 1904. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 300 pages complete. A benign copy. The boards have wear scuffing marks all about from handling shelving and storage age. The spine is marked by hand and shelving there is wear to head and foot and along the seams. They are steady and sound. The front papers have previous owner signatures. The contents are much smeared and smudged with foxing throughout. The pages are even yet thick certain clean and clear very confident competent comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. John Murray, London hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 45210Cambridge: University Press 1909. 47pp. Original printed wrappers 3-inch strip missing from lower spine corners chipped split along rear hinge. University Press unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 59401New York: HaFiner Press 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. 1 vols. 8vo. Green polished calf t.e.g. About fine. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. 1 vols. 8vo. HaFiner Press unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 12138London: Ward Lock and Co 1890. Later Edition. Hardcover. Good. Later Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. The original editions app.eared in 1842 1844 and 1846 respectively. Minerva Library No. 18. Presents all three parts of the first edition of Darwin's geological results of the Beagle voyage with a critical introduction to each work by Prof. John W. Judd. The voyage of the Beagle lasted from December 1831 to October 1836 and carreid Darwin around the wotld but especially to South America. Former owner name on ffep: Trevor H. Evans St. Johns Hospital. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Moderate shelf/edge wear discoloration to boards toning else tight and unmarred. Original textured green cloth boards with black and gilt borders and lettering patterned endpapers. 8vo.xx 549pp. illus. b/w illus. including 3 fold-out plates plus 6 page publisher's catalogue 40 text figures. Ward, Lock, and Co hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 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
1901Best.-Nr. 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
1891Best.-Nr. 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
1994Best.-Nr. mon0000079071Gryphon Editions 1994. Leather. Like New. in x in x in. Gryphon Editions hardcover
1884Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1925Best.-Nr. 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
1889Best.-Nr. 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
2009Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1891Best.-Nr. 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
1889Best.-Nr. 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
1900Best.-Nr. 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
1887Best.-Nr. 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