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1832réf. 4893England 1832. Letter written in brown ink on a folded sheet the back leaf containing an address in manuscript with a black wax seal a dragon with a D. The stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. Letter by Francis Darwin announcing the death of his mother. The letter has been addressed to Samuel Tertius Galton in Birmingham the stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. There is a black wax seal a dragon with a D on the verso. The text of the letter reads: My dear Galton /It has pleased God to remove our dearest mother from this world of sin & sorrow. She appeared to be much as usual until 2 o'clock & whilst sitting in her chair by the fire complained of general uneasiness. Sophie & I assisted her to the bed & she expired at 1/4 before 3 oclock in the presence of Dr. Bent & ourselves. She had thought herself so much better lately that Mrs. Hadley & Millicent were both sent home yesterday & the day before. /I hope Violetta will not suffer from this severe shock to us all. You shall hear again in a day or two. /Believe me affectionately yours / Frans S. Darwin. Violetta Darwin was the eldest daughter of Erasmus Darwin from his second marriage to Elizabeth Chandos Pole which took place in 1781. Violetta was married to Samuel Tertius Galton and the mother of Francis Galton. It is therefore likely that the Francis of this letter was one of her four brothers. unknown books
1901réf. 52738London: Jarrold & Sons 1901. First printing. Near fine. First edition advance review copy of this scarce turn-of-the-century primer on Darwinism for "every day people." A popular introduction to evolution by means of natural selection for "the young person the person with little education the person who is not studious the masses in short." Influenced by renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace with whom he became acquainted due to their mutual work in land nationalization projects Ogilvy turned his attention to the still widely misunderstood concept of evolution. Wallace who had already provided the introduction for Ogilvy's THE THIRD FACTOR OF PRODUCTION also reviewed the manuscript for this book. Certainly with his connection to Darwin as "a co-discoverer and friend" he was one of the best possible beta readers for such a text. Ogilvy stresses that this book was written to make the principles of Darwinism accessible to all by making the subject "simple clear and interesting" and avoiding "technicalities and dry structural details" - addressing what he felt was a general misunderstanding of Darwin's findings amongst the population he sought to reach. A contemporary review in the science journal NATURE confirms this referring to a "widespread . ignorance and misapprehension of Darwin's teaching among the general public." Another from THE EXPOSITORY TIMES praises the "blessed simplicity in Mr. Ogilvy's way of presenting the subject." Laid into this copy is a typed letter signed by the publisher sending it to a journal editor for review. OCLC locates only a handful of US holdings and only a few more elsewhere. A gorgeous copy. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original green cloth with dark green stamped Art-Nouveau design lettered in red to front board and in gilt to spine. Pictorial endpapers. 160 pages. Single typed sheet dated 21 March 1901 and signed "Jarrold Sons" laid in. Boards with touch of wear to extremities. Faint offsetting to endpapers light foxing to edges. Crisp and tight. Jarrold & Sons unknown books
1857réf. 57211London and Edinburgh: John Murray; W. & A. K. Johnston 1857. A well-executed beautifully engraved map. Hand-colored. 16 x 13 inches 25 x 22 inches in mat and frame. Faint vertical center fold line else fine. Wheat 934. Not in Moffat. From the rare Atlas of the United States. 1857 by Rogers and Johnston. This is the only commercial atlas map of its time to show the Utah Territory on a single map and it is in its own right one of the rarest maps of the territory. In addition to county boundaries and information from Fremont's report the map provides a good deal of detail on springs Indians topographical features forts early roads and more. Portions of Nevada Colorado Arizona and New Mexico are included. The first separately printed map of Utah. This map was published at the time of the Utah War 1857-58 and depicts Brigham Young's original view of the large Deseret Territory. Fillmore City is shown as the capitol. The map includes a note from Fremont's report which states "The Great Basin is elevated above the sea between 4000 and 5000 ft. it is surrounded by lofty mountains and is believed to be filled with rivers and lakes which have no communication with the sea deserts and oases which have never been explored and savage tribes which no traveller has seen or described. John Murray; W. & A. K. Johnston unknown books
réf. albda0a499f81c12dffDarwin Charles. Human origins and gender selection. In two volumes. In Russian /Darvin Charlz. Proiskhozhdenie cheloveka i podbor po otnosheniyu k polu. V dvukh tomakh. Translation from English edited by I.M. Sechenov. With drawings: St. Petersburg: Edition of the Cherkesov Bookshop 1871-1872 1) 2, XIII, 481 and 2) 2, VI, 452c. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbda0a499f81c12dff.
1963réf. 61618Erevan, Hayastani Petakan Hratarakch'ut'yun, 1963. Royal8vo. In publisher's full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities, primarily affecting spine. Inner font hinge split, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 591, (1) pp. + 2 plates.
1871réf. 60107London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1871. Royal8vo. In publisher's original red embossed cloth. In ""Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science"", Vol. 3, November 1870 - April 1871. Stamp to title-page and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Binding with considerable wear"" spine partly disintegrated and front board bended vertically, but bookblock firmly attached. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's paper: Pp. 502-503. [Entire volume: XII, 520 pp].
1982réf. 62054Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1982 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities, spine with a few light stains. A nice and clean copy. 412 pp. The genealogical tree included in the pagionation on pp. 124-125.
1949réf. 63399Erevan, Academy of Sciences Armenian S.S.R., 1949. Large8vo. In publisher's original printed cardboard binding. Title printed to spine and front board. A pictures of The Beagle on lower part of front board. Binding with wear and some stains. Internally with dampstain to upper part of leaves, primarily affecting first half. (4), 460 pp. + frontiespiece of Darwin.
1887réf. 53495Warszawa, 1887. 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine and four raised bands. Spine with wear and top right corner (3 x 5 cm) of title-page lacking, not affecting text. Internally fine and clean. (4), II, 412, XVIII pp.
1868réf. CDAR012London: John Murray 1868 Two volumes. First edition first issue. One of 1500 copies. Bound in three-quarter contemporary brown calf over red marbled boards spines lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled marbled endpapers. A very good set with some wear and rubbing along edges and spines former owner bookplate to front pastedowns some foxing to the first few leaves otherwise clean. Freeman 878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: John Murray hardcover books
réf. alb98fa88f23030d9adDarwin C.R. Changes in animals and plants as a result of domestication In Russian /Darvin Ch.R. Izmeneniya zhivotnykh i rasteniy vsledstvie prirucheniya.V 2-kh tt. Volumes 1-2. Translated from English with the consent and assistance of the author V. Kovalevsky. Edited by I. M. Sechenov, botanical section edited by A. Gerd. Pb Type F.S. Sushchinsky 1868. 4, IV, 443 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb98fa88f23030d9ad.
1863réf. 29135Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerie 1863. Boards. Very Good. VIII 551 1 blank pages. Plus original albumen photograph of Darwin mounted on thin board inserted before the half title with original tissue guard still present. 8vo. 1/4 leather gilt over marbled boards. Light overall wear to the binding. Bookseller ticket LW Schmidt New York German Bookseller on front pastedown. Lightly browned pages clean internally. A nice copy. Boards. The first German translation of Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was published in 1860 by the same publisher. This edition is notable for the inclusion of an albumen frontispiece of Darwin a very early portrait. Van Wyhe's Complete Photographs of Darwin identifies this portrait as a sitting by Maull & Polyblank from 1857. This image is identified as a variant of that image "1.1. Albumen photograph 15.3x11.5cm uncropped mounted on thick paper. Below image "Phothogr. v. Buchner / Charles Darwin. / E. Schweitzerbart'sche Verlagshandlung in Stuttgart." Frontispiece to Origin 2d ed. in German 1863 F673." If not the first it was certainly among the first albumen images of Darwin to be published in a book. A nice addition to any Darwin collection. The albumen print is by Carl Johann Sigmund Buchner. Literature: Freeman Bibliographical Handlist 2nd edition #673 Van Wyhe's Complete Photographs of Darwin. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerie unknown books
1877réf. 6668London: John Murray 1877. First edition. Very Good. Octavo 20 cm; viii 352 32 ads pages. Ads dated March 1877. Original green cloth titled in gilt on spine. Foxing to endleaves and to fore edge else clean and unblemished. In his eye-opening re-appraisal of Darwin's botanical books Oliver Sachs wrote that Darwin's botanical studies were "engines of war great missles of evidence lobbed at the skeptics of his theory of natural seledtion" The River of Consciousness. Sachs observes that the botanical studies are "even more overwhelming" than the author's magnum opus The Origin of Species in its presentation of natural seledtion as the basic fact of evolution. Sachs singles out this work The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species as particularly significant in that it explores the theme of co-evolution between two or more interdependent species such as elongated flowers developing together with insects capable of pollinating them with a long proboscus. John Murray hardcover books
réf. albda06eda2293a3f42Darwin C. Illustrated collection of works by Charles Darwin in 8 volumes. In Russian /Darvin Ch. Illyustrirovannoe sobranie sochineniy Charlza Darvina v 8 tomakh. St. Petersburg. Lepkovsky Edition 1907-1909. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbda06eda2293a3f42.
1872réf. 19203London, John Murray, 1872. In-8 de VI-374-4 pages, plein percaline verte, dos orné de fleurons dorés en tête et en queue, plat estampé à froid. Cartonnage d'éditeur.
1905réf. 56932Vidin, Pechatnitsa na Diukmedzhiev, 1905. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, in the original printed wrappers. The present volume includes includes ""Autobiography"" and first half of the ""Origin"". The second half was published shortly after. Spine lacking upper 5 cm and front wrapper with several nicks. Internally very fine and clean. (Autobiography:) 67, (2), [Origin of Speicies:] 236 pp. + frontiespiece of Darwin. Genealogical tree included in the pagination on p. 133.
1888réf. 53153Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Przegladu Tygodnio, 1888-1889. Large8vo. In two uniform contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Top right corner (app. 3 x 5 cm) of both title pages cut off" volume 1 not affecting text, volume 2 missing the n in 'Darwin'. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine set. (2), X, 11-357, III" (2), 379, IV, VIII, V pp.
1888réf. 140943887London: John Murray 1888. Sixth Edition. Near Fine. Sixth edition thirty-fifth thousand. An unusually fresh copy bound in publisher's original green cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt with folding lithographic diagram. Near Fine with light wear to cloth small series of spots to the fore edge. A bright and sharp example. John Murray unknown books
1877réf. 82941C. Reinwald & Cie | Paris 1877 | 14.50 x 23.50 cm | reliure de l'éditeur
1862réf. 5086Paris Guillaumin et Cie - Victor Masson et Fils 1862 In-12 (h. 18 cm.) lxiv-xxiii-712 pp. une planche dépliante, demi-reliure chagrin brun clair, nerfs, filets dorés. Reliure de l'époque.
1871réf. 10230London: John Murray 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First issue of Volume I second issue of Volume II. Complete in two volumes. Good. Green cloth generally rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges. Both volumes bound with forward leans hinges reinforced chipped half-title of Volume I restored with paper backing foxing throughout. Darwin's influential work that furthers his theories about evolution and natural selection. In fact the first issue of this book features Darwin's first use of "evolution. John Murray hardcover books
1970réf. 59965(Ankara, Sol yayinlari, 1970). 8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities. Small white paper label pasted on to back wrapper. Internally fine and clean. 469, (3) pp. (with the genealogic tree included in the pagination).
1878réf. 365957New York: D. Appleton and Company 1878. New Edition from the Sixth English Edition with Additions and Corrections. xxi 1 1-458pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher's russet cloth blocked in black. Near fine. New Edition from the Sixth English Edition with Additions and Corrections. xxi 1 1-458pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. "Certainly the most important biological book every written . The sixth edition which is usually regarded as the last appeared in London in February 1872 . It is again extensively revised and contains a new chapter VII. . It is in the edition that the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time. It had been used in THE DESCENT OF MAN in the previous year but not before in this work" Freeman p. 79. The present 1878 edition is the fifth issue of the American edition based on the sixth edition. A lovely copy of an early American edition. Freeman 403 D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1892réf. 48692London: John Murray 1892. Very good plus. Sixth edition "forty-third thousand" overall - and the first to use the term "evolution" to describe the mechanism of natural selection that Darwin introduced in the book. "Evolution" - the word now most associated with THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES - was not used to describe natural selection in the publication until the sixth edition. By then Darwin was well aware that he had a phenomenon on his hands with the title - it was time to widen his audience. The 6th edition was purposefully set in smaller type slimming the book's profile and making it more affordable "I have been told on authority which I can trust that . workmen club together to buy the Origin" Darwin noted of previous editions in correspondence in 1871. It also contains a glossary for the first time making the text more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Appropriately this copy was once owned by James G. Mead whale biologist and longtime curator of marine mammals at the Smithsonian. Mead is a particular proponent of the anatomical study of marine mammals a method of examination that Darwin also favored; THE NEW YORK TIMES notes that Mead's use of this technique "has given scientists a detailed look at species that often can be observed only fleetingly in the wild." A notable edition of an iconic work. 7.5'' x 5''. Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Floral patterned endpapers of the John Murray monogram. xxii 432 pages including index; folds from page 185 on are unopened. Small owner name to front flyleaf "J. G. Mead" dated Feb. 1972. Small owner name to title page "Jas Probert" dated July 1893. Binding with faint spotting to edges light bumping to corners and spine ends. Light foxing to endpapers. Interior clean. John Murray unknown books
réf. 119769aafLondon: John Murray, 1881, in-8vo, VII (+1 white) + 326 p. + 1 leaf (list of works by Darwin), ill. with 15 woodcuts in-text, old ownership inscription to half-title ‘Th. Gompertz’, Original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front and rear boards panelled in blind, dark brown endpapers, edges uncut.
