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réf. 124278New York: Clarke Given and Hooper Publishers. Good. Hardcover. A Good edition with heavy edgewear to the boards and pages the spine starting to separate loose tanned pages and other general wear ; Darwin's book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex is a brilliant examination of the evolution of the human species. He outlines the different stages of human evolution and the roles that sex and selection have played in shaping us. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in human evolution.; 8vo; 797 pages . Clarke, Given and Hooper, Publishers hardcover books
1998réf. 56205New York Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Third Edition. Hardcover. 0195112717 . A handsome Later Edition in unblemished condition in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has some adhesive residue on the cover ; This book by Charles Darwin is a compilation of his work on the expression of emotions in man and animals. Darwin discusses how expressions of emotions change through the different stages of life and how this affects social interactions. He also discusses the evolutionary origins of emotions and their impact on human behavior.; 8vo; 472 pages; Price . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1982réf. 56522New York: Arbor House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 087795366x . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition housed in an equally impressive dust-jacket; and AssayThis book is about three scientists who contributed to the understanding of Venus. They are Sir William Herschel Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur. They all studied Venus and were able to make some interesting discoveries.; 8vo; 346 pages; Price . Arbor House hardcover books
1957réf. 70338New York: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1957. Cloth. Edition in Near Fine condition with some bumped corners and light soiling ; The Journal of Researches Into the Natural History & Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R. N. is a work that was written by Charles Darwin. The book covers his travels in South America Chile and the Galapagos Islands. It also covers his observations of the natural environment and the different animals he encountered.; B&W Engravings; 8vo; 489 pages; FSA . The Heritage Press hardcover books
1978réf. 52288New York: Weathervane Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0517263106 . Very Good condition rubbing to edges soil mark to front corner in a Near Fine mildly worn dust-jacket; Darwin's account of his voyage around the world in the ship Beagle is a fascinating look at the natural world. He describes the different plants and animals he encounters and the ways in which they have adapted to their environment. This book is a great resource for anyone interested in learning about the natural world and it is sure to fascinate anyone who picks it up.; 8vo ; 228 pages; 52272: four volume set . Weathervane Books hardcover books
2009réf. 89913n.p.: Black Oyster Publishing Company Inc 2009. Paperback. Near Fine. frontis 45p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Edited by Tom Thomas statement on title-page. Black Oyster Publishing Company, Inc paperback books
2014réf. 349055Blood Moon Prods 2014. 707p. first edition first printing stated paperback bound in pictorial wraps photos in very good condition. Very camp memoirs and biographies. Perfect fodder for Ryan Murphy's next TV series. Blood Moon Prods unknown books
1885réf. M14677New York:: Styles & Cash printers and stationers 1885. 1885. Offprint. Reprinted from the New York Medical Records May 9 1885. 8vo. 24 pp. Original printed wrappers; some wear to extremities generally very good. Scarce. Erasmus Darwin Hudson Jr. MD was an American thoracic physician and educator. He was professor of principles and practice of medicine in the Woman's Medical College of New York infirmary from 1872 until 1882 and professor of general medicine and physical diagnosis in the New York Polyclinic from 1882 until his death from pneumonia in 1887. Styles & Cash, printers and stationers, 1885. unknown books
1957réf. 233350Easton Press 1957. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Full brown leather with gilt board design and page edges. Three raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Notes From The Archives sheet. 489 pages. Easton Press hardcover 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
1871réf. 6644London: John Murray 1871. First edition second issue of volume 1 seventh thousand of volume 2. Good. 2 volumes octavo 20 cm. Original green cloth. Spine cocked somewhat on volume 1. Both volumes well-read but quite good. Owner's name in pencil on title page of volume 1. References: Norman 599; Garrison-Morton 170; Corrections to the text in volume 1 mark this printing as the first edition second issue. Volume 2 is the first restriking. It is noted that the word "evolution" occurs on page 2 of volume 1 for the first time in any of Darwin's works. John Murray hardcover books
1872réf. 6655London: John Murray 1872. First edition second issue. Very Good. Octavo 19 cm; vi 374 pages including 21 text illustrations and seven photogravure plates three of them folding . Lacks half title and ads. In custom prize binding for the London School of Dental Surgery polished red calf ruled in gilt with gilt emblem of the school on upper board gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with green leather title label; marbled edges and endleaves by Bickers and Son. Ownership autograph and ink stamp of Henry B. Mason 1855-1923. About fine. Seen by some as the origin of modern understandings of emotion and incidentally the first English Language science book to be illustrated with photographs. John Murray hardcover books
1979réf. 6650Cuildford: Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co. 1979. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author's grandson G.P. Darwin. Fine. 35 cm; 843 pages 5 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations. In half polished black leather over green cloth with red leather roundel on upper board within a stamped gilt lozenge; facsimile autograph in gilt on lower board. Spine in six compartments with red leather title label and gilt ornaments. All edges brightly gilt. Protected in publisher's slipcase of green cloth with cream-colored paper label. Effectively as new. Facsimile of Darwin's handwritten journal of the crucial voyage of the Beagle with a preface by King Charles III Prince Charles at the time and an introduction by Richard Darwin Keynes. Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co. hardcover books
réf. 015961London: John Murray; Smith Elder Sixteen volumes uniformly bound. SIGNED BINDINGS BY ZAEHNSDORF BINDERY. The Zaehnsdorf Bindery was one of the leading binders in England founded in 1842 sold in 1947. This set was bound in the early 1900's. All volumes have been rebacked by master binders at Green Dragon Bindery in Shrewsbury MA. Some gutters re-inforced with contemporary papers. Spines are designed in gilt and red titled in gilt. Blue marbled paper-covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Book-plate of IRVING FISHER on pastedown of each volume. Fisher 1867-1947 was an American mathematical economist inventor and eugenicist. Top edges gilt. Crisp and clean throughout. All volumes have been collated complete. One book "A Naturalist's Journal." has a larger format demi octavo. The books and printing details are listed below. Please see photos. 1 "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" sixth edition 34th thousand John Murray 1890 two volumes; 2 "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" second edition 22nd thousand John Murray 1888 two volumes; 3 "The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects" second edition fifth thousand John Murray 1890; 4 "The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom" third edition John Murray 1891; 5 "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms" eleventh thousand John Murray 1888; 6 "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" second edition edited by Francis Darwin John Murray 1890; 7 "The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication" second edition seventh thousand two volumes John Murray 1890; 8 "Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" third edition Smith and Elder 1891; 9 "Insectivorous Plants" second edition John Murray 1888; 10 "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" third edition Smith and Elder 1889; 11 "The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants" fifth thousand John Murray 1891; 12 "The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species" third thousand John Murray 1888; 13 "Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy" new edition 1890. An unusual and likely "one-of-a- kind" collection of Darwin works including the classics "Origin of Species" and "Descent of Man". Charles Darwin1809-1882 was a noted English naturalist geologist biologist widely-respected for his contributions to evolutionary biology. He in interred in Westminster Abbet not far from Sir Isaac Newton. Please see photo. The association with the eugenicist Irving Fisher book-plates adds interest to the set. Postage will be higher due to the size of the collection. . Multiple Editions. 1/2 Cobalt Blue Morocco. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Crown Octavo. John Murray; Smith, Elder Hardcover books
1860réf. 140949121London: John Murray 1860. Second Edition. Very Good. Second edition second issue with "fifth thousand" listed on the title page. x 502 32 pp. Bound in publisher's emerald green cloth with decorative stamping in blind and gilt brown coated endpapers. Very Good with slight darkening and lean to spine and crimping at head and tail light bumping to corners and board edges and shallow indentation to rear board center. Hinges repaired two preliminary leaves beginning to detach overopened throughout; binding cracked but holding at p. 121. Occasional foxing to margins. Gift inscription dated 1860 to half-title page recipient's bookplate to front pastedown small binder ticket to rear pastedown. A remarkably good copy with crisp blindstamping and bright gilt. An immensely influential work considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology in which Darwin postulates that species evolve over the course of generations through natural selection. This copy was gifted to the Reverend Archibald Weir by a grateful student "in remembrance of his preparing him in Classics for the preliminary examination at Apothecaries Hall. John Murray unknown books
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
1881réf. 140940727London: John Murray 1881. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Darkening to spine cloth and slight tear at head. Foxing to textblock edge preliminary and terminal sheets. Previous owner name in pencil to front paste down. Darwin's final work published shortly before his death in April 1882. John Murray unknown books
1977réf. 187399Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1977. Hardcover. VG-/VG- Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Binding tight. Off-white cloth boards with black lettering; green illustrated dust jackets and mylar covers. Volume 1 has xviii 277 pp; bw illustrations. Volume 2 has viii 326 pp with bw illustrations. Two volume set. "This book presents all of his articles papers written by Darwin's sons but under his direction and supervision a first transcription of a scientific paper he presented in 1827 while a medical student and letters written and publishes by him as introductions to other works. Also included are letters of inquiry published in various magazines and journals."- DJ. University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1868réf. 2642London: John Murray 1868. FIRST EDITION. Original Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Darwin's sequel to the Origin of Species including his first use of the term "survival of the fittest". "The Variation was a full statement of the facts on which the theories of the Origin were based. "After the Origin's publication Darwin embarked on two broad lines of research: botanical experiments and studies of variation sexual selection and emotional expressions in humans and mammals. In 1860 he began recycling the early as yet unpublished chapters of 'Natural selection' and studying the osteology of domestic pigeons ducks and geese for a book on how breeders and horticulturists modify species. This was The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 1868. Its two volumes were intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation although they would also incidentally answer Lyell and Gray who maintained that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed. Darwin showed that breeders indeed selected from a vast array of minute random variations. He gave numerous instances of the causes of variability including the direct effect of the conditions of life reversion the effects of use and disuse saltation prepotency and correlated growth. "The Variation also addressed a key criticism of the Origin of Species: that it lacked an adequate understanding of inheritance. Darwin's 'provisional hypothesis of pangenesis' was constructed to explain how heritable traits were passed from parents to offspring. He supposed that each part of a parent organism throws off minute particles or 'gemmules' which circulate in the body and collect in the sexual organs to be transmitted in reproduction. Because gemmules are received from two parents the offspring develop to resemble them both more or less. 'The child strictly speaking does not grow into the man but includes germs which slowly and successively become developed and form the man' Darwin Variation. "The term 'survival of the fittest' borrowed at Wallace's insistence from Herbert Spencer's 1866 Principles of Biology first appeared in the Variation. It was a partial substitute for Darwin's more anthropomorphic 'natural selection' which many critics took to imply the existence of a 'selector'. Mistaking Darwin's metaphor they concluded that intelligence lay as much behind nature's selecting as behind a pigeon fancier's. Nevertheless Darwin defended his use of 'natural selection' while conceding that he had personified it too much" Dictionary of National Biography. First issue: with 1-line publisher's imprint on cloth at base of spines 5 lines of errata in vol. I and 7 in vol. II. Complete with 32 pages of ads dated April 1867 at rear of vol. I 2 pages of ads dated February 1868 at rear of vol. II as issued and 43 in-text wood engravings. London: John Murray 1868. Octavo original cloth. Two volumes. Handsome bookplate and small bookseller's Foyle's sticker on front pastedown of each volume and neat owner signature in pencil on flyleaves. A little foxing to flyleaf and title of volume 2 otherwise text generally clean. Cloth with only a little rubbing and a few mild spots of soiling. Volume 1 possibly recased spine cloth tight against text block. Spine gilt exceptionally bright. A handsome copy in original cloth of an essential Darwin text. John Murray unknown books
1873réf. 1344339New York: D. Appleton and Co 1873. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 374 pages 14. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine embossed designs on front and rear board. Boards show some bumping and fraying at the corners and loth torn but intact at the spine edges. Text block has light age toning to pages throughout but otherwise clean. Seven heliotype plates of which three are folding. Previous owner's stamp on front paste-down. EO Consignment. Shelved in Case 10. 1344339. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
1901réf. 31308New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1901. First Printing. Flexible leather. Brown pebbled leather with worn corners quite rubbed joints and general wear to spine. Good. Salesman’s sample copy with title page sample pages more than a few sample photos and a sample of the spine followed by blank pages for order taking. While only 3/4” thick the book has similar samples of a number of titles offered by D Appleton for the 1901 season. Tyndall’s Hours of Exercise in the Alps and the same author’s The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers Ice and Glaciers and Herbert Spencer’s First Principles. The following books are represented by their title page only: Spencer’s Education Intellectual Moral and Physical Thomas Huxley’s Science and Education John William Draper’s History of the Conflict between Religion and Science and Richard Proctor’s Other Worlds Than Ours; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1889réf. 7060London: John Murray 1889. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 519 pages 4 pages of ads; original gilt decorated green cloth. Light wear at extremities neat owner name bookplate. Front inner hinge cracked; altogether a very good copy of an early printing. John Murray hardcover books
1879réf. 1379563London: John Murray 1879. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 693 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards have splitting to joints bumping to corners rubbing to corners exposing boards rubbing to edges and mild shelf wear. Binding shaken. Textblock has light age toning moderate foxing to pages bookplates on both pastedowns marking in pencil on many pages splitting between pages 192 and 193 and between pages 262 and 263 and rear hinge completely split. 1379563. Special Collections - Downstairs. John Murray hardcover books
1894réf. PW1191Edinburgh:: T. & T. Clark 1894. 1894. 8vo. xvi 358 10 pp. Crimson blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Ownership signature of Robert Maxwell Young. Very good a nice copy. PROVENANCE: Robert M. Young is a historian of science specializing in Darwinism. T. & T. Clark, 1894. hardcover books
1985réf. BL1509New York and London:: Garland 1985. 1985. Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Vol. 369. 4to. 690 pp. Port. of Darwin index; small tick-mark in one margin otherwise clean. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0824092244 First edition noting that a 46-page supplement with a reprinting the original was issued in 1994. Frederick Burkhardt was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall Cambridge. Garland, 1985. hardcover books