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1868ref. 24571London: John Murray 1868. First Edition second issue. leather_bound. Full tree calf gilt decorated borders marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. 2 Vols. 411 486 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 43 black and white illustrations. Comprehensive Index. Bound without the advertisements. The book's slow progress towards publication was due not only to its size but the author's ill health. "About half of the eight years that elapsed between its commencement and completion were spent on it. The book did not escape adverse criticism: it was said for instance that the public had been patiently waiting for Mr. Darwin's justificatives and that after eight years of expectation all they got was a mass of detail about pigeons rabbits and silkworms. The work contains the first appearance of the phrase 'survival of the fittest' in any of Darwin's works p. 6 of 1st volume. Single erratum in Volume I. FREEMAN 878. NORMAN. 597. Backstrip decorated with gilt florets and gilt lettered spine labels lacking Vol. II label. John Murray
1880ref. 55102FIRST ISSUE IN A HANDSOME BINDING first edition first issue 8vo. 2 half-title & advt. x 592pp. 196 figures on text leaves handsome modern contemporary-style half light tan calf spine panelled by gilt-rolled raised bands large blind tool at panel centres red morocco label gilt old marbled paper on sides top edge gilt trivial old water stain at the extreme foot of the first few leaves. A nice copy. Freeman Darwin Bibliography 1325. First issue with 2 lines of errata on page x. "This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanism holds good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other and was not reprinted in England after the year of Darwin's death until modern facsimiles appeared of the first thousand in 1966 and the second in 1969.The first edition was published on November 6 1880 and it is recorded that 1500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. It was in a standard green cloth binding and cost 15s. . In this issue there are two lines of errata on page x which are corrected in the second thousand of the same year. . In the third thousand of 1882 the last Murray printing the preface is slightly altered" Freeman p.161. This work follows up on his earlier On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants 1865 and was based on experiments that he conducted with the assistance of his son Francis Darwin. On p.569-70 he suggests natural selection as a possible explanation for plants' ability to bend towards or away from environmental stimuli. John Murray hardcover
1873ref. A2091vii37414 ad pages with figures drawings 7 plates some folding and index. Octavo 8" x 5 1/4 bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and ruled in black with design to cover. DSB Freeman 1143. cf Garrison & Morton 4975 First American edition. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory following On The Origin of Species1859 and The Descent of Man 1871. Originally intended as a section of The Descent of Man it was published separately in 1872 and concerns the biological aspects of emotional life. In this book Darwin sets out some early concepts of behavioral genetics and explores the origins of such human characteristics as the lifting of the eyebrows in moments of surprise and the mental confusion which typically accompanies blushing. A German translation of The Expression appeared in 1872; Dutch and French translations followed in 1873 and 1874. A second edition of the book was published in 1890. Before Darwin human emotional life had posed problems to the traditional philosophical categories of mind and body. Darwin's biological approach links mental states to the neurological organization of movement and he allows cultural factors only an auxiliary role in the shaping of expression. Darwin's interest can be traced to his time as a medical student and the 1824 publication of Sir Charles Bell's Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression which argued for a spiritual dimension to the subject. Darwin sought out the opinions of some leading British psychiatrists notably James Crichton-Browne in the preparation of the book which forms his main contribution to psychology. Amongst the innovations with this book are Darwin's circulation of a questionnaire probably inspired by his cousin Francis Galton in his preparatory research; simple psychology experiments on emotional recognition with his friends and family; and borrowing from Duchenne de Boulogne a physician at the Salpêtrière the use of photographs in his presentation of scientific information. The Expression of the Emotions is an important landmark in the history of book illustration. Wikipedia Condition: Spine ends rubbed a few plates with some partial split at folds corners bumped and rubbed over opened at signature starting at the gathering on page 235 to 256 page 181 crudely opened else a about a very good copy. D Appleton and Company hardcover
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ref. 23112July 19th 1886. Questionnaire partly filled in by Darwin from "Translation of Scientific Memoirs' Committee" 2pp 4to minor sunning good condition. NOT including the Printed Letter p.1 from H.W. Crosskey explaining what the questionnaire is for "Action for the Translation and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs" to be put to the attention of the British Association. Signed on recto two answers on verso.See Image.The questionnaire comprises four questions with a final section headed "Remarks" the questions being "1."Do you think it advisable that steps should be taken to secure the systematic translation and publication in English of all the more important foreign scientific memoirs; 2. If so advisable would the work be best accomplished: a by the formation of a Special Society or Committee for dealing with memoirs on all subjects; or b by the formation of separate Societies or Committees each dealing with one particular branch of science; or c by urging the existing scientific Societies to undertake the translation of the memoirs with which they are most nearly concerned 3. Would it be necessary in your opinion to translate memoirs in the French language 4. Should the work of translation be done voluntarily or be paid for by a small fee; the name of the translator in either case being attached to his work" Section 5 is headed "Remarks" verso.DarwinHe answers Question 1. "I do not think it advisable. IIt seems to me that no amount of translation that is at all practicable would do away with the necessity of being able to read french & germansic".No answers to questions 2 and 3 left blank. Question 4 answer rather conflicting with the earlier answer: "I think it should be paid for by a fairly good fee. The translations must as pointed out in the pamphlet be made by those having special knowledge of the subject and I cannot help doubting whether such persons would undertake the drudgery of translation unless they were well paid."No Remarks. Note: A copy of the report based on this and other completed questionnaires apparently the only one recorded is at the National Library of Medicine Bethesda USA . Despite valiant efforts including being one hour's drive away I have been unable to see it or secure a copy: " Report presented by the council to the annual meeting of members held in the library of the Medical InstituteOctober 8 1885. Birmingham Philosophical Society Birmingham England. See other completed questionnaires Galton Huxley Francis Darwin etc. July 19th, 1886. unknown
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