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2026rif. x-9377467624Gyan Books 2026. Hardcover. New. 458 pages. 5.50x1.19x8.50 inches. Gyan Books hardcover
2006rif. 0131339931-1-37410779Prentice Hall 2006-01-01. hardcover. Like New. 9x1x11. Prentice Hall hardcover
rif. 191539London: William Pickering 1986-89. A finely bound set of the first complete edition The Pickering Masters edition being the first complete collected works of Darwin to be published remarkably over 100 years after his death. 29 vols bound in 20 octavo 228 x 152 mm. Recent green morocco spines lettered and tooled in gilt 5 raised bands covers framed with wave roll green marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Faint marks to binding and edges spines faded: in near-fine condition. Freeman F1921. hardcover
1872rif. 189795London: John Murray 1872. Completing Darwin's evolutionary writings First edition first issue "written as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment" Freeman. The plates are among the earliest commercially reproduced photographs in a scientific book. While researching this work Darwin invited the photographer Oscar Rejlander to make comparative studies of laughter and crying obtained photographs of asylum inmates from the asylum director James Crichton-Browne and consulted the French physiologist Guillaume Duchenne on his electrical research on facial muscles. In the first issue "that" is spelled correctly on the first line of page 208. The plates are lettered with Roman numerals; another state is known in Arabic numerals without priority of issue. Freeman suggests that the Arabic numeral plates were printed first but notes that "the two states seem to occur at random in the two issues of the text and Darwin's own copy at Cambridge has the Roman" Freeman. Octavo. With 7 tissue-guarded heliotype plates of which 3 folding woodcut illustrations within text. With 4 pp. publisher's advertisements dated November 1872 at rear. Original dark green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers panelled in blind black coated endpapers. Label partially removed from front pastedown; pencil ownership signature of one "Dudley Crawford". Rubbing to cloth spine darkened ends and corners bumped and worn inner hinges split outer leaves foxed neat tape repair to upper margin of pp. 1-2 chip to lower outer corner of pp. 311-2: in very good condition. Freeman 1141; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600. hardcover
2009rif. S64622Cambridge Ma.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009. xx 2 ix 537 1 text fig. . HB. Small 4to 212x212mm orig. cloth. Fine in d/w in removable protective sleeve. First edition. Scarce. This is the highly sought-after 2009 hardcover first printing. A cornerstone for any serious Darwin or History of Science collection. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is the most important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. Now James T. Costa - experienced field biologist theorist on the evolution of insect sociality and passionate advocate for teaching Darwin with Darwin in a society where a significant proportion of adults believe that life on earth has been created in its present form within the last 10000 years - has given a new voice to this epochal work. By leading readers line by line through the Origin Costa brings evolution's foundational text to life for a new generation. The Annotated Origin is the edition of Darwin's masterwork used in Costa's course at Western Carolina University and in Harvard's Darwin Summer Course at Oxford. A facsimile of the first edition of 1859 is accompanied by Costa's extensive marginal annotations drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin's ideas in the field lab and classroom. This edition makes available an accessible useful and practical resource for anyone reading the Origin for the first time or for those who want to reread it with the insights and perspective that a working biologist can provide. 9780674032811 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover
1875rif. 182454London: John Murray 1875. A meticulous study of botanical evolution First edition first issue in particularly fresh condition. Darwin consulted leading physiologists and chemists in this experimental work to show that carnivorous plants adapted to trap and digest insects enabling them to survive in poor soil. Two of the woodcuts figures 7 and 8 are after drawings by Darwin himself while several are after drawings by his sons George and Francis. Darwin started researching insectivorous plants in 1860 after observing a sundew while resting in Sussex. "During subsequent years whenever I had leisure I pursued my experiments and my book on 'Insectivorous Plants' was published in July 1875 - that is sixteen years after my first observations. The delay in this case as with all my other books has been a great advantage to me; for a man after a long interval can criticize his own work almost as well as if it were that of another person. The fact that a plant should secrete when properly excited a fluid containing an acid and ferment closely analogous to the digestive fluid of an animal was certainly a remarkable discovery" van Wyhe. The finished book discussed the whole range of such plants their adaptations and evolutionary relationships and their specialized digestive processes. Octavo. Woodcuts in text. Original green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind brown coated endpapers. Bookplate of Henry Wade Deacon 1852-1932 son of chemist and industrialist Henry Deacon; contemporary bookseller's ticket of G. G. Walmsley Liverpool to front pastedown. Cloth bright and unmarked extremities lightly rubbed rear inner hinge starting but holding firm majority of gatherings unopened endleaves foxed: a near-fine copy. Freeman 1217; Norman 601. John van Wyhe "Insectivorous Plants" Darwin Online. hardcover
1882rif. 180981London: John Murray 1882. First edition sixth printing following the first of the previous year with a contemporary albumen portrait photograph of Darwin mounted to the front free endpaper verso. The photograph heavily faded was taken by Herbert Rose Barraud 1845-1896 and was the last portrait taken before Darwin's death in 1882. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Original green cloth spine lettered in gilt brown endpapers. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper; 20th-century bookplates of Esme Nicoll née Bowker in both her maiden and married names. Slight lean to spine a little toned. A very good copy. Freeman 1362. hardcover
2021rif. SKU1748435Elsevier 2021-05-31. paperback. New. 8x1x10. New Book Ships with Tracking Elsevier paperback
2012rif. SKU1749962Academic Press 2012-11-20. hardcover. New. 8x1x11. New Book Ships with Tracking Academic Press hardcover
1860rif. 191556London: John Murray 1860. In the distinctive original cloth The definitive version of Darwin's first published and most widely read book. This botanical and zoological travelogue outlines much of the fieldwork which led to the Origin of Species. The text is the same as the first Murray edition 1845 but includes new preliminaries and a postscript and is the first in the distinctive green Murray cloth. The Journal now popularly known under its later title The Voyage of the Beagle first appeared as the third volume of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle published in May 1839. "The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science" DSB. Darwin himself would state that "the voyage of the 'Beagle' has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career. I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history and thus my powers of observation were improved" Life and Letters I p. 61. Octavo. Diagrams within text. With 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green wave-grain cloth spine lettered ruled and decorated in gilt covers framed and decoratively stamped in blind brown coated endpapers binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown. With early 20th-century bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. Gilt and cloth bright extremities bumped adhesive remnant on endpapers cords occasionally visible. A very well-preserved copy. Freeman 20. Francis Darwin ed. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin 1887. hardcover
2016rif. x-1357604076Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 426 pages. 6.14x0.94x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
1839rif. 189657London: Henry Colburn 1839. An outstanding account of natural history exploration First edition of the Voyage of the Beagle with the third volume Darwin's Journal of Researches being the first separate edition of his account. The popularity of Darwin's contribution to the series meant that his volume was reissued three months later as a standalone publication the version present in this set. The first issue of Darwin's Journal appeared in May 1839 as Volume III of the Narrative under the title Journal and Remarks Freeman 10. The second issue was published in August printed from the same sheets but with variant preliminaries Freeman 11. It "is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed" of Darwin's works Freeman p. 31. Volume I of the Narrative contains King's account of the expedition on the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830 surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Volume II its appendix bound separately as issued FitzRoy describes the narrative of the Beagle's second voyage between 1831 and 1836 to South America the Galapagos Islands Tahiti New Zealand and Australia. 3 vols in 4 vols I-III and appendix to vol. II octavo 224 x 145 mm; 219 x 137 mm. With 47 engraved plates 9 folding engraved maps 3 bound in and 6 linen-backed and loose in front pockets diagrams and tables within text. Recent and late 19th-century vol. III half calf spines lettered and ruled in gilt spine labels marbled sides and edges buff endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature of one I. S. G. Smith on title page of vol. III partially obscured during binding process; 1950s unattributed inscription on first blank of vol. I; ownership signatures of one Thomas Leighton dated 1979 on vol. I II and appendix blanks; 20th-century bookplates of one Richard Campbell perhaps of the Campbells of Kildalloig and later Carmarthenshire. Wear to vol. III extremities spine of same a little darkened foxing to maps plates and occasionally to contents tear to half-title of vol. I closed tears to map folds repairs to folding map facing p. 463 vol. I and both maps in vol. III first of which creased and standing a little proud: overall in very good condition. Freeman 10 Narrative vols I & II & 11 Journal. Francis Darwin ed. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin 1887. unknown
1891rif. S59012London: T. Nelson 1891. x 3 14-615 frontis 20 engraved plates several double-page text engravings. . HB. 8vo orig. blue cloth gilt bevelled boards minor rubbing to joints. Some foxing to prelims and edge of text block. Very good. Inscription to endpaper dated 1892 from Arthur Greg to the British archaeologist Charles Dawson 1864-1916. Dawson claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries including the Piltdown Man which were later exposed as frauds. Dawson's name stamp to half-title. Also later ownership stamp and signature of British arachnologist David R. Nellist to flyleaf.Freeman 68. Third impression of Thomas Nelson's illustrated edition first published 1888. Taken from Darwin's journals while voyaging on the H.M.S. Beagle these notes form a background for ideas he would later develop in On the Origin of Species while also serving as an excellent travel narrative of his voyage around South America New Zealand and Australia as well as the famous survey of the Galapagos Islands.Freeman 68. T. Nelson hardcover
2016rif. x-1358381216Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 232 pages. 6.14x0.56x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
1875rif. 191591London: John Murray 1875. The last lifetime edition Sixth edition fifth issue. The sixth edition was the first to feature the word "evolution" - a term first used by Darwin in The Descent of Man 1871 - and was the last published in Darwin's lifetime. It also featured a chapter inserted to refute the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart and a glossary by the entomologist William Sweetland Dallas. Darwin continually made revisions to the Origin of Species. The sixth edition was first published in February 1872 and "was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type. giving the general impression of a cheap edition which at 7s. 6d. it was" Freeman. The first issue read "eleventh thousand" on the title page noting the total issue of copies from the first edition of 1859 onwards. Octavo. Folding diagram facing page 91. Original green bead-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt decorative frames blocked in blind to covers brown coated endpapers binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son to rear pastedown. Book label of Thomas Olver Harding 1850-1896 graduated from Trinity College Cambridge as senior wrangler in 1873. Spine a little toned ends and corners bumped and worn inner hinges cracked but firm rear free endpaper sometime tipped in occasional light spotting to contents. A very good copy. Freeman 398. hardcover
2008rif. 1-0760332770Zenith Pr 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 308 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Zenith Pr hardcover
2026rif. x-1032773375Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 230 pages. 6.14x0.53x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
2026rif. x-1032770635Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 290 pages. 6.14x0.61x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
1868rif. 10685New York: Orange Judd & Company 1868 Faint small spots of discoloration along the foredge of first 193 pages - does not affect legibility or integrity of the volume. Bumped two lower corners of covers. Bookplate to inside front cover. ; Book is in excellent condition. Volume 2 is concerned with how species inherit particular characteristics Darwin first published his 'provisional hypothesis' of pangenesis. This theory of 'gemmules' was not met with much acceptance and today is not valuable as scientific explanation but it was important in laying down the key questions that needed to be answered regarding the processes of genetic inheritance. Darwin also used volume 2 to challenge the theories of evolution by design expounded by the botanist Asa Gray. Darwin's arguments were some of the very first in a long debate that remains hot today. The work was intended to counter critics of Origin of Species particularly those who questioned the reality of variation and the mechanism of inheritance. It is considered a classic in evolutionary biology providing crucial support for the theory of evolution. It laid groundwork for modern plant and animal breeding and genetics. ; ; 568 pages. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange Judd & Company hardcover
rif. 197786Folio Society 2008. Tall 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth top edge green Fine slipcase near Fine. Pp. xlvii 727 illus with coloured plates and in text no inscriptions. Folio Society, 2008 unknown
2002rif. 1-0760311552Motorbooks Intl 2002. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 12.50x11.00x1.50 inches. Motorbooks Intl hardcover
1865rif. 185092St Petersburg: Prince A. S. Golitsyn 1865. Russian evolution Scarce first edition in Russian of Darwin's first published book celebrated as the genesis of his theory of evolutionary biology. Among the earliest translations of the Voyage in any language this edition attests to Darwin's popularity in Tsarist Russia. Like Britain and France Russia was a centre of pre-Darwinian research on evolutionary theory. The Darwinian evolution proved immediately popular as young scientists and radical social philosophers employed it to establish their independence from religious conservatives in the traumatic aftermath of the Crimean War. The Voyage of the Beagle was originally published in 1839. This translation was produced by Andrei Beketov 1825-1902 the botanist and evolutionary theorist who had also produced the first Russian translation of the Origin in 1864. Beketov's wife Elisaveta 1834-1902 was a prolific translator in her own right and it is now widely accepted that she collaborated with her husband on this translation. A variant of the famed diagram of the Galapagos finches is on page 206 of Volume II. 2 vols small octavo 160 x 106 mm pp. viii 540 2; iv vi 466. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Recent blue quarter calf spines lettered and ruled in gilt marbled paper sides and endpapers edges sprinkled blue. Later blue ink library marks to final leaf verso of vol. II. Japanese tissue repair to upper inner corner of frontispiece. Light rubbing minor foxing and damp staining to contents: a very good copy. Freeman F2383.1-2. unknown
1940rif. 49237New York: The Crime Club/ Doubleday Doran & Company 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Red cloth boards lettered in black light bumping to the spine ends. Bookplate of Gordon L. Jenner with light foxing to front endpaper and offsetting from jacket to rear endpaper. Dust jacket not price clipped edge-worn and creased with a few closed tears and small chips at the corners and spine ends jacket was touched up with marker in blue and red. The Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1902rif. S63574London: John Murray 1902. xxi 1-blank 432 2-ads folding diagram. . PB. 8vo orig. printed wrappers spine faded minor wear. Occasional foxing. Good. Popular impression Tenth to Thirtieth Thousand in this Form of the corrected copyright edition. Issued with the approval of the author's executors.Freeman . John Murray unknown
1845rif. A63207London: John Murray 1845. viii 519 1 14 text figs. . HB. Small 8vo 178x124mm rebound in antique-style half calf spine with raised bands gilt rules blind stamped floral motifs to compartments leather title piece marbled boards. Occasional light foxing/spotting. Vg. Second edition corrected with additions. Taken from Darwin's journals while on the H.M.S. Beagle these notes form a background for ideas he would later develop in On the Origin of Species while also serving as an excellent travel narrative of the voyage around South America New Zealand and Australia as well as the famous survey of the Galapagos Islands.Freeman 14. John Murray hardcover
