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1904réf. 44332London: John Murray 1904. Thirteenth thousand". 8vo. viii 298 2 pp. Publisher's leaf green cloth black lettered and decorated to the spine and upper board dust jacket New Zealand bookseller's labels to the front pastedown and the jacket spine mid 20th century ownership inscription to the front free endpaper the date of the first edition annotated in ink underneath the imprint on the title page. 10 plates. Jacket tanned and worn with small losses some old repairs on the verso Uncommon with the jacket. Freeman 1389. A later issue with the spine title in black. London: John Murray unknown
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1937réf. 355490719533London: Gollancz 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. THE GOLLANCZ FILE COPY. Publisher's black boards with orange-red spine lettering. FILE COPY stamp to the front paste-down and ARCHIVE COPY stamp to the title page foxing to the page block edges and the early/late pages of the book still overall a near fine copy in a fine D/W priced 7/6 net to the spine as called for. The D/W is stamped FILE COPY to the front cover and has a small number 37 in ink at the top right #hand corner of the back panel. "Another adventure of the Baron von Kaz the Austrian nobleman who is by his own admission a great detective. Whether or not one agrees with the Baron's estimate of himself one must admit that this is a colorful personality and that the stories about him are rich in entertainment as well as in puzzlement" The New York Times. The UK first edition of this title is exceedingly uncommon. We are aware of only 5 copies in institutional libraries including two in the British Library. Far scarcer than its US equivalent. Photographs/scans available upon request. Gollancz hardcover
1890réf. 28915Nelson & Sons 1890. Later Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Later impression of the Nelson edition which first appeared in 1888 - see Freeman 63. Clean and sound copy in the original dark blue cloth and gilt binding. Wear and rubbing to edges fading to the fore edges of the bevel edged boards. Ownership inscription to the half title. 615 pages wood engraved plates throughout index. Approx. size 8" x 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28915. . Nelson & Sons hardcover
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
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1868réf. 151873London: John Murray 1868. First edition first issue of Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis in which he first uses the phrase "survival of the fittest" for the first time. First issue without publisher's advertisements errata with five items in six lines in the first volume on page vi and nine items in seven lines in the second volume on page viii. Octavo two volumes bound in full contemporary calf with titles and tooling to the spine double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges marbled marbled endpapers illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. In very good condition bookplates to the front pastedowns. Darwin's Variation Under Domestication “took up in detail that subject which had been confined to one chapter of the Origin. It contained Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis by means of which he tried to frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance inheritance of acquired characters atavism and regeneration. It was a brave attempt to account for a number of phenomena which were beyond the bounds of scientific knowledge in his day such as fertilization by the union of sperm with egg the mechanism of chromosomal inheritance and the development of the embryo by successive cell division. His hypothesis of pangenesis could not therefore give a permanently acceptable account of the multitude of phenomena it was designed to explain. It was however a point of departure for particulate theories of inheritance in the later 19th century” DSB. John Murray unknown
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1871réf. 140397London: John Murray 1871. First edition of both volumes with "transmitted" the first word on p. 297 in the first volume; in the second the printer's note on the verso of the half-title errata on title verso and the postscript leaf after p. viii. both volumes have the January ads. Octavo two volumes original green cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The book in its first edition contains two parts the descent of man itself and selection in relation to sex. The word 'evolution' occurs Volume I p. 2 for the first time in any of Darwin's works" Freeman 128-29. It also contains Darwin's important and then controversial statement that the extinct ancestors of Homo Sapiens would have been classified among the primates. "One of the ten most significant books ever written" Sigmund Freud. Freeman 937; Garrison-Morton 170; Printing and the Mind of Man 169; Rieber 121. John Murray hardcover
1868réf. 137161New York: Orange Judd & Company 1868. First edition of Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis. Octavo original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. Preface by Asa Gray. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Darwin's Variation Under Domestication “took up in detail that subject which had been confined to one chapter of the Origin. It contained Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis by means of which he tried to frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance inheritance of acquired characters atavism and regeneration. It was a brave attempt to account for a number of phenomena which were beyond the bounds of scientific knowledge in his day such as fertilization by the union of sperm with egg the mechanism of chromosomal inheritance and the development of the embryo by successive cell division. His hypothesis of pangenesis could not therefore give a permanently acceptable account of the multitude of phenomena it was designed to explain. It was however a point of departure for particulate theories of inheritance in the later 19th century” DSB. Orange Judd & Company hardcover
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1815réf. 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
