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1909ref. A61656Cambridge: Printed at the University Press 1909. xii 53 portrait frontis 1 b/w plate. . HB. 8vo orig. parchment-backed printed boards lightly rubbed edges uncut. Occasional light foxing. The presentation leaf has been neatly removed. Freeman states that this is the case in some copies which were perhaps available outside the presentation issue. Good. Very scarce. First unpublished edition printed for presentation only to delegates to the Cambridge celebration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his Origin of Species. Later the same year this was reprinted and published together with the sketch of 1844. 'When Francis Darwin put together Life and Letters he did not know that the sketch of his father's evolutionary ideas which was written in 1842 had survived. The pencil manuscript was discovered in 1896 after the death of his mother in a cupboard under the stairs at Down House.' Freeman p. 182. Freeman 1555. Printed at the University Press hardcover
ref. 66251London: John Murray 1892. Sixth edition. 8vo. 19 x 12.5 cm. pp.xxi432. Publisher's original spruce green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt. With the folding diagram as called for. Provenance: Old ownership inscription Daniel A. Dewar dated 1894 to half-title blindstamp to final leaf. Some light browning and spotting to endpapers light spotting to half-title some trivial light shelfwear a very good copy overall. An attractive copy of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" Horblit and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" Freeman in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory First published by Murray in 1859. London: John Murray, 1892. hardcover
1887ref. AQ28006London: John Murray 1887. In three volumes. ix 1 395 1; 4 393 1; iv 418pp. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt to spines. A trifle rubbed. Hinges exposed armorial bookplates of Bernard Lord Coleridge to FFEPs scattered spotting. With a 4pp A.L.S. tipped-in to FFEP of Vol. II: 'Dear Mr. Rockstro I have to thank you for two most kind letters. It is very good of to value the book so highly - I am glad to hear of the big book and the flute for which as my first love I still have much affection. I often wish I had been taught other things as well as I was taught by you - there are but few who teach well I find. I have not forgotten that your day is Saturday but I am so seldom in town - I hope I find you at home someday. Yours ever sincerely F. Darwin'. The first edition of Francis Darwin's 1848-1925 monumental memoir of his father naturalist geologist and originator of the theory of natural selection Charles Darwin 1809-1882; with a contemporary letter in Francis's hand addressed to his former music tutor flautist Richard Shepherd Rockstro. Provenance: Bernard John Seymour Coleridge second Baron Coleridge 1851-1927 lawyer and Liberal politician grandson of poet John Taylor Coleridge. . First edition. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
ref. 18795London: Printed for the Palaeontographical Society 1851 & 1854. . Two works bound in one volume 4to 27.8cm. I: pp. vi8810 several figures on 5 lithographed plates index. II: pp.vi442many figures on 2 lithographed plate index. Hardbound recent full burgundy cloth gilt-lettered title to backstrip. Excellent copy without flaws. - Rare early work by Darwin on fossil Crustacea here in their original edition issued in two parts in the Annual Volumes of the Palaeontographical Society as Volume 5 no. 13 resp. Volume 8 No. 30. Freeman 352. - phd.179 London: Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, 1851 & 1854. hardcover
1815ref. BB2499London: printed for Taylor and Hessey No. 93 Fleet Street 1815. Full Calf. Fine. Second Edition of this classic of meteorology first published in 1814 which revolutionized the understanding of ventilation in public places and for which Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. Demy 8vo 212 x 127mm: 4150pp. Beautifully bound in contemporary calf spine richly gilt in six compartments covers framed in blind and gilt red leather lettering piece gilt Prussian blue end papers. Manuscript presentation to title page: "To Dr. James Jackson from the Author" with Jackson's engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down. A gorgeous example tightly bound and generally clean throughout. Lowndes 2871 "A valuable little work". Garrison-Morton 1604. Norman 2199 and Christies 848. Blocker p. 416. Waller 12191. Knight p. 191 "Perhaps more important than any writings on induction by philosophers was the splendid example of inductive reasoning by William Charles Wells. . . . his Essay on Dew was rapidly recognized as a classic.". Wells was born in Charleston South Carolina but left America at the start of the Revolution for London where he became physician to St. Thomas's Hospital. In the autumn of 1811 he began a series of researches in the Surrey garden of his friend James Dunsmore comparing the formation of dew under varying conditions of temperature humidity weather cloud cover season and time of day. He concluded that dew results from the condensation of air in contact with objects cooled by radiating their heat into the cloudless night sky. "His researches . . . were of major importance in the development of the science of ventilation particularly in its relation to relative humidity and the influence of the latter on the comfort of the occupants of factories ships theatres etc." Garrison-Morton Wells's inquiry into the nature of dew was widely cited in the 1830s as an outstanding example of inductive scientific inquiry. Sir John Herschel used it as the primary illustration in his Discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy calling the theory "one of the most beautiful specimens we can call to mind of inductive experimental enquiry lying within a moderate compass." In 1836 the Encyclopedia Metropolitana reported "We know of no work in our day which has been more universally admired than the Treatise of Dr. Wells certainly none that practically exemplifies in a purer and better form the admirable inductive system which it was the object of Bacon to teach." John Tyndall and William Whewell also praised it. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for Taylor and Hessey, No. 93, Fleet Street unknown
1891ref. 33824London: Smith Elder & Co. 1891. Third edition 8vo xiv 648 pp. 2 folding maps and 5 folding plates including a hand coloured geological section light staining to the top edge of the plates at the end as folded hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled green cloth mild rubbing to spine ends. Originally published 1842-6 in 3 volumes - Coral Reefs Volcanic Islands and South America this volume combining the latter two parts. Freeman 282. London: Smith, Elder & Co. unknown
1922ref. 1759Zagreb: Tisak Kr. Zemaljske Tiskare 1922. First Croat edition. In original printed wrappers. In very good condition. With a photographic portrait of Darwin and a double page folding map. Illustrated throughout. With a photographic portrait of Darwin and a double page folding map. Illustrated throughout. First Croat edition. In original printed wrappers. 7 4–165 1 p. with a photographic plate and a folding map. Rare first Croat edition of the The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin’s only work translated into this language until recent times. The present translation was never completed. The full and different translation was published in 1949 Putovanje jednog prirodoslovca oko svijeta; Zagreb: Beograd Novo Pokoljenje. Not in Freeman. . Tisak Kr. Zemaljske Tiskare unknown
1899ref. 29274London: John Murray 1899. 2 volumes. Second edition eighth impression a very early reissue of an important edition revised. With illustrations throughout. 8vo original polished green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spines paneled in blind on the covers. xiv 473 1; x 495 32 catalogue pp. A very handsome set beautifully preserved and unusually fresh in the original bright and unfaded cloth still with the gilt bright and strong in colour a tight and clean copy. A HANDSOME SET OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. The second edition is very important in that Darwin made a number of corrections but more importantly he reworked Chapter XXVII on Pangenesis. This work "represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters. It contains in Chapter XXVII his provisional hypothesis of pangenesis; one which he thought was new but has a long back history" Freeman 877. The first work to truly discuss the actual origin and development of species as an accepted scientific method. The second part of his 'big book' was not published until 1875 under the title NATURAL SELECTION. It was in this work that Darwin attempted his finalization of the understanding or pangenesis and an explanation of acquired characteristics and hereditary resemblance. These subjects were near to impossible to explain in Darwin’s time as scientific methodology and technology had simply not developed to the point at which finite and provable studies on genes and chromosomes could be explored. John Murray hardcover
1889ref. 60362Fagerstrand pr. Høvig Bibliothek for de tusen hjem 1889. 8vo. 3 volumes all in publisher's original embossed cloth-bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. Very light wear to extremities corners bumped an overall excellent set. 445 1 pp.; 456 pp.; 488 pp. 3 Frontispieces. The rare first Norwegian translation of Darwin's "The life and letters of Charles Darwin including an autobiographical chapter" - being the first translation of any of Darwin's works into Norwegian "Origin" was translated into Norwegian in 1890.A complete Danish translation of the work has never been published and the first Swedish translation did not appear until 1959. Due to the similarities between Danish Swedish and Norwegian this edition in effect introduced Darwin's letters and autobiography to Scandinavia.Martin Simon Søraas is listed as translator on all three title-pages whereas Freeman lists Peder Jacobsen Ulleland as having translated vol. 1. and Martin Simon Søraas as having translated vol. 2 and 3. Ulleland is listed in Freeman as having translated vol. 1 because he initiated a translation but only finished volume 1. Sørensen the publisher quickly discovered that Ulleland did not have the required skills as a translator and Sørensen fired him. Eventually Søraas was hired and translated all three volumes.Freeman 1528 hardcover
1889ref. 60362Fagerstrand pr. Høvig, Bibliothek for de tusen hjem, (1889). 8vo. 3 volumes all in publisher's original embossed cloth-bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. Very light wear to extremities, corners bumped, an overall excellent set. 445, (1) pp. 456 pp." 488 pp. + 3 Frontispieces.
1877ref. 015021John Murray London 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 7 5/8" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. G. Gift binding Full leather with gilt decoration along the edges of the boards and along the spine five raised bands a black leather and a red leather spine label marbled end papers gilt inner dentelles 352 pages. Wear at corners and spine ends boards have light scratches previous owner's name label Erastus Corning 2nd 1909-1983 Mayor of Albany NY on front paste down several pages uncut. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 11 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015021. . John Murray hardcover
ref. 78226Saint Peterburg Wesenberg Down and London Elliott & Fry 1874. Albumen print mounted on cardboard with a red ink border 10.3 x 6.1 cm. With the printed name Darwin in Cyrillic and printed Cyrillic text on recto and verso. Name of Darwin stamped in cyrillic on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve. = Carte de visite. With a fine crisp portrait of Charles Darwin at the age of 65 years. This photo was made in the studio of Elliott & Fry in 1874. ".while Darwin wrote and published two of his most important evolutionary tracts - Descent of Man and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - he took a hiatus from sitting for his photographic image. Once these books were out however he needed an updated carte-de-visite that he could send out to his friends and supporters. He turned again to the photographers who had made his most recent cartes Elliot and Fry. They produced at least four different poses which Darwin would have sent to friends and admirers." Darwin Project - photographic portraits. Van Wyhe identifying the four poses with the letters a to d described the recto of this version as variety 1874 c.7 but give no information about the card verso. However it appears to be the same as in their 1874 c.5. and therefore possibly it is another edition NOT recorded by Van Wyhe. If and when it was licenced to the Wesenberg firm located at Fontanka 55 in old Saint Petersburg is not exactly known. Slightly over-exposed as always. This copy in very good condition. Very rare. J. Van Wyhe in: Helvert P. van and J. Van Wyhe Darwin: a Companion 1874 c.7. p. 175. Not recorded by Freeman. unknown
1978ref. feb01321978. Macedonian First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin. Потеклото на видовите Hardcover. Used book For more details and availability please contact me Misla
1943ref. feb026271943. First Argentine Edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin El origen de las especies Used book For more details and availability please contact me Progreso y Cultura
1875ref. feb027311875. First French Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin. Voyage d'un naturaliste autour du monde Used book For more details and availability please contact me C. Reinwald hardcover
1860ref. 132John Murray 1860. Hard Cover. Good. Second edition of the journals from Darwin's 5 year voyage on the HMS Beagle. It has been rebacked with leather preserving the original quarter leather boards and spine which had become separated. Original endpapers have some foxing and ghosting. Pastedown on front cover advertising for R Grant and son of Edinburgh. Text is clean and unmarked but there appears to be faint remainder spray on the edges. It was the observations on this trip which began when Darwin was 22 that paved the way for his theory of natural selection and evolution. John Murray unknown
1862ref. MS0012vi3651 pages with one folding plate and 33 woodcuts in text without the advertisements. Small octavo 7 1/2" 4 3/4" bound in full 19th-century calf spine gilt stamped spine in five compartments divided by double gilt fillets with Rugby School coat of arms to cover. Marbled end pages. Clark: 180-181; Freeman 800; Norman 595 First edition. 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 Fertilized by Insects and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing. Darwin's previous book On the Origin of Species had briefly mentioned evolutionary interactions between insects and the plants they fertilized and this new idea was explored in detail. Field studies and practical scientific investigations that were initially a recreation for Darwin—a relief from the drudgery of writing—developed into enjoyable and challenging experiments. Aided in his work by his family friends and a wide circle of correspondents across Britain and worldwide Darwin tapped into the contemporary vogue for growing exotic orchids. 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. It influenced botanists and revived interest in the neglected idea that insects played a part in pollinating flowers. It opened up the new study areas of pollination research and reproductive ecology directly related to Darwin's ideas on evolution and supported his view that natural selection led to a variety of forms through the important benefits achieved by cross-fertilization. Although the general public showed less interest and sales of the book were low it established Darwin as a leading botanist. Orchids was the first in a series of books on his innovative investigations into plants. Condition: Some scuffing to leather points rubbed. Provenance: H.M. Fitzgerald owner's name dated December 1869; Seddon H. Chadwick owner's name dated May 1943 to front end paper else very good. John Murray hardcover
1748ref. 17931748 Chez L'Honoré et Fils, Amsterdam, 1748. 2 volumes in-8, plein veau, dos orné, filets dorés sur les plats, doré sur les trois tranches. (6 ff), (cxix), (4 ff), 208 pages; 231 pages, 1ff d'errata.
1844ref. 40321BRAUNSCHWEIG: Friedrich Vieweg u. Sohn 1844. Primera edición alemana.- 4º.- Lomera y puntas pergamino de época lomera con tejuelo.- 2 tomos en 1 volumen.- I: XVI.- 319 páginas.- II: 301 páginas.- Ilustraciones entre texto más un mapa plegado fuera de texto de Sur América. Primera edición alemana del viaje de Charles R. Darwin en la expedición como naturalista a bordo del H.M.S. Beagle entre 1831 y 1836 dando la vuelta al mundo. Traducida por el Dr. Ernst Dieffenbach. Investigando nociones de geología entomología disección de invertebrados marinos etc. Saliendo de Plymouth van a Tenerife Cabo Verde Bahia Rio de Janeiro Monterideo Falkland Islands Valparaiso Callao Galapagos Sydney Hobart King George's Soward Mauritius Cape Town Bahia Azores y otra vez Plymouth. Sabin 18650 Friedrich Vieweg u. Sohn unknown
1963ref. 60530Adelaide The Limited Editions Club 1963. 4to. In half wallaby over paper covered boards imitating wooden boards. Spine in black wallaby hide with gilt lettering and ornamentation with green inlaid label. XXXII 470 pp. 6 engraved coloured plates and 72 illustrations in text. The paper was also produced in Australia for this specific edition. No. 785 out of 1500 copies. Housed in a green slip-case. A fine and clean copy. First Australian edition of Darwin’s seminal ‘Origin of Spcies’ here – to honor this copy’s Australian origin – bound in wallaby hide and printed on paper produced in Australia. The Limited Editions Club was founded by George Macy in 1929 to publish finely printed illustrated and bound editions of literary classics in editions limited to 1500 copies. The books were available on a subscription basis. The company continued to produce books through multiple changes in ownership but has not released new books since 2010. hardcover
1963ref. 60530Adelaide, The Limited Editions Club, 1963. 4to. In half wallaby over paper covered boards, imitating wooden boards. Spine in black wallaby hide with gilt lettering and ornamentation with green inlaid label. XXXII, 470 pp. + 6 engraved coloured plates and 72 illustrations in text. The paper was also produced in Australia for this specific edition. No. 785 out of 1500 copies. Housed in a green slip-case. A fine and clean copy.
1987ref. 112985New York University 1987-1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 29 vols. Edited by Paul Barrett & R. B. Freeman New York University hardcover
1888ref. 28746London: John Murray 1888. 2 volumes. Second edition sixth thousand a very early printing of this important edition revised. With all Illustrations as called for throughout. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth decorative borders in blind on the covers the spine lettered and decorated with a small tool and ornate bands at the spine tips in gilt. xiv 473 1; x 495 32 ad catalogue pp. An excellent set especially well preserved and quite fine bright and clean unusually so in fact it is still partially unopened and with only a small abrasion to the free-fly being the only evidence of use. Finding these in such nice condition is rare for academic books. A FINE SET SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND AN IMPORTANT WORK. The second edition is very important in that Darwin made a number of corrections but more importantly he reworked Chapter XXVII on Pangenesis. This work "represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters. It contains in Chapter XXVII his provisional hypothesis of pangenesis; one which he thought was new but has a long back history" Freeman 877. The first work to truly discuss the actual origin and development of species as an accepted scientific method. The second part of his 'big book' was not published until 1875 under the title NATURAL SELECTION. It was in this work that Darwin attempted his finalization of the understanding or pangenesis and an explanation of acquired characteristics and hereditary resemblance. These subjects were near to impossible to explain in Darwin’s time as scientific methodology and technology had simply not developed to the point at which finite and provable studies on genes and chromosomes could be explored. John Murray hardcover
1871ref. 59148John Murray London 1871. 1871. Hardcover. 2 volumes 8vo. hardcovers. pp.423475. b/w illus. Very good minor wear to cover corners foxing to endpapers. Original binding. First edition Eight Thousand third printing. . John Murray, London, 1871. hardcover
1888ref. 677london: John Murray 1888. Later printing. Leather_bound. Very Good. Contemporary three quarter leather binding by Mudie. seventeenth thousand 519 pages including index plus i to ix preface. Beautiful /leather binding with raised bands to spine. Gilded lettering ruled lines and design to spine with the title on a black leather .background. Attractive marbled boards and endpapers. Tan calf leather in good condition - some surface loss to the corner pieces . All page ends also marbled - the pages edges are quite perfect with a noticeable gloss to them. John Murray hardcover
