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8vo., Second Edition, Seventeenth Thousand, neat signature on blank front preliminary and dedication; original dark green arches-style cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut and partially unopened, very neatly recased, backstrip very lightly chafed (but without material loss) at head and tail else an unusually good, clean copy. With 32p publisher's catalogue (dated April 1886) bound in at end and the trade ticket of Beavis Stewart of Newcastle-on-Tyne on front paste-down. Quite apart from its scientific value, Darwin's first published text (1839) is an important travel work in its own right. This issue retains Darwin's separate Postscript, first seen in the tenth thousand of 1860 and from 1890 onwards incorporated in the text. Freeman (Darwin), 18.
8vo., Second Edition, with 13 woodcuts in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso; handsomely bound in early twentieth century half calf BY MUDIE, marbled boards, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, third compartment with author's name in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, backstrip faded (but all gilt just legible) else a most attractive copy of a scarce work. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. The publisher's catalogue sometimes found at end has not been bound with this copy. The first printing of the first edition was in Vol. IX of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London (dated 1867 but issued in 1865). The present edition, the first in book form, is greatly revised and enlarged; Freeman notes that 1500 copies were printed. The woodcut illustrations are by George Darwin, the author's son. SCARCE. Freeman (Darwin), 220; Freeman (BNHB), 909.
8vo., original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Proceedings of the British Academy', vol. XLIV.
8vo., Second Edition, Ninth Thousand, with a double-page coloured map as frontispiece, a coloured plate, 2 coloured maps (one double-page; one full-page) and 122 engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, yellow endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), case a little shaken else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1877, this is a systematic approach to natural science presented with characteristic clarity by 'Darwin's Bulldog'. Freeman, 1866 (recording the first edition).
8vo., Signed Limited Edition, with 13 coloured plates on 8, and numerous monochrome photographs, illustrations and facsimiles (a number full page) in the text; marbled boards, cloth back gilt, green endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY PRYOR (THIS COPY NO.280) AND CONTAINING IN A SEPARATE FOLIO A LIMITED NUMBERED WOOD-ENGRAVING BY GWEN RAVERAT 'VENCE, LA PLACE EN ETE'. The wood-engraving was made in 1923 at the height of the correspondence described in the book, and hand printed by Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press from the original boxwood block.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), 9 plates (original tissue guards present where called for) and an illustration in the text, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary of first volume; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrips faded (but all lettering just legible), backstrips slightly pulled at heads else a very good, crisp, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of both volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs and front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Published a month after the first edition.
8vo., First English Edition, with 103 plates on 48 and very numerous illustrations and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 13 coloured plates on 8, and numerous monochrome photographs, illustrations and facsimiles (a number full page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, terracotta endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, front endpapers lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; sand cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel.
8vo., Second Edition, Third Thousand, with 13 woodcuts in the text, small inoffensive label scars to front free endpaper; original green arches-style cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, small skilful repair to bottom of backstrip, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated January 1882) bound in at end. The woodcut illustrations are by George Darwin, the author's son. The first printing of the first edition was in Vol. IX of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London (dated 1867 but issued in 1865). The second edition, the first in book form (greatly revised and enlarged) was published in 1875 with a second 'Thousand' (actually only 500 copies) in the following year. The present edition is the first to carry the author's appendix to the Preface, and a five-line list of errata on last leaf of Contents. Since these refer to author's errors rather than to literals and remain uncorrected through subsequent reprintings from stereos, this represents the final text of the work. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman (Darwin), 222; Freeman (BNHB), 909.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With publisher's original price label on front wrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and endpaper maps, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; mustard boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates, numerous monochrome plates and several illustrations and diagrams in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The best of the Big Four WWII histories. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers very lightly browned; original series binding of grey ribbed cloth, gilt back, grey top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. EL 498; Seymour 547.0.
8vo., [Fifth Edition], with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure toned in sepia (original tissue guard present) and a full-page facsimile (of Darwin's holograph) in the text, endpapers very lightly browned; original green decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy. The abridged version of Francis Darwin's life of his father (the fourth edition of the 'Life and Letters' overall) first appeared in 1892. Freeman states that this New Edition includes an addition to the preface. The portrait frontispiece is engraved from the famous study by Mrs. Cameron. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman (Darwin), 351.
8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., with coloured plates; black cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt and orange, gilt back, gold endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid FS edition of one of the greatest scientific classics of the twentieth century. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles and pedigrees throughout; origjnal green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Richard Broke Freeman (1915-1986), noted Darwinian scholar and bibliographer, was author of A Darwin Companion, the Darwin Bibliographical Handlist, British Natural History Books and several others related works. The present work combines a fine facsimile of Burke's 'Pedigree of the Family of Darwin' (1888) published in an edition of only 60 copies, and Freeman's Commentary. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE RARE.
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. Collects eleven essays relating to evolution, the 'Origin' and the aftermath, by one of Darwin's closest friends and staunchest supporters. Volume two of Huxley's 'Collected Essays' but complete in itself. First published in the previous year. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text, preliminaries and title lightly spotted, some occasional but generally inoffensive browning to text; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, a bright, crisp copy.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Seventh Thousand, with 43 illustrations in the text, some very occasional underlining (mainly in pencil), a little light spotting to the first several leaves of each volume; original arches-style binding of green cloth, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, backstrips lightly chafed (without loss) at heads and tails, lower joints mildly rubbed and a little tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (April, 1889) bound in at end of second volume as called for. First published in 1868, Darwin's longest work was extensively revised for the second edition of 1875 which became the final text. It is especially notable for containing (in Chapter XXVII) the first statement of the author's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis. No publisher in England other than Murray has ever printed this important work. Freeman (Darwin), 241; Freeman (BNHB), 910.
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and full-page pedigree in the text, small neat inscription on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed at edges and with small loss around head of backstrip. Published a month after the first edition. Dustwrapper artwork by John Woodcock. The first complete edition to appear in print, edited by Barlow from the original MS. SCARCE. Freeman, 371.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Fourth Thousand, with 43 illustrations in the text, neat personal blind-stamp on titles; original arches-style binding of green cloth, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, backstrips lightly chafed (without loss) at heads and tails, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (January 1876) bound in at end of second volume as called for. First published in 1868, Darwin's longest work was extensively revised for this second edition which became the final text. It is especially notable for containing (in Chapter XXVII) the first statement of the author's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis. No publisher in England other than Murray has ever printed this important work. Freeman (Darwin), 241; Freeman (BNHB), 910.
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of each volume. Published a month after the first edition. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
