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1952rif. 59401New York: HaFiner Press 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. 1 vols. 8vo. Green polished calf t.e.g. About fine. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. 1 vols. 8vo. HaFiner Press unknown books
1871rif. 52438London: John Murray 1871. Darwin disliked having to open the unopened pages of books--a common aspect of many 19th century publications. For that reason he ordered a small number of presentation copies from John Murray with trimmed edges. Trimming the edges made the book blocks shorter so the original cloth bindings in which these presentation copies were issued are slightly shorter than the regular edition. John Murray unknown books
1991rif. 1419001Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. Hardcover. Octavo Volume Seven only: xxxv 671 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is green with black and white print. Dust jacket has edge wear small vendor label on rear panel. Boards in black cloth.Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf marginal notation in ink. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column F ND-F . 1419001. FP New Rockville Stock. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1860rif. 1263511860. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 8vo 7 5/8 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm. 432 pp. Folding lithographed diagram speciation tree facing p. 108. Original dark green bead-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Original dark brown coated endpapers front free endpaper removed; early ink signature J.F. Oakes dated 1868; bookplate of Isador H. Coriat and stamp of Edmund Brill with inscription. Professionally conserved: hinges strengthened head and foot of backstrip renewed. § First issue of the first American edition. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century "On the Origin of Species" was and still is one of the most controversial books ever printed. In it "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" Printing and the Mind of Man. Although published the same year as the second English edition the text of the first American edition with the two stereo reprints of the same year is identical to the first English edition Freeman 373 with the whale-bear story surviving intact. Freeman 377. Grolier/Horblit 23b "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century". Printing and the Mind of Man 344b describing the 1859 first edition. unknown books
1866rif. 1259011866. Signed. DARWIN Charles. Autograph letter signed. Down Beckenham Kent: Dec 17 1866. One leaf of black-edged mourning stationery measuring 4-1/2 by 7 inches penned on recto for one page; floated matted and framed with an early photographic card; entire piece measures 17 by 14 inches. $29500.Fine unpublished 1866 autograph letter written by Charles Darwin answering the questions of an anonymous correspondent concerning editions of his landmark work On the Origin of Species boldly signed by him with his full name ""Charles Darwin"" he often used ""C."" or ""Ch."" instead of his full given name. Beautifully framed with an early photographic card.The letter reads in full: ""Down Beckenham Kent Dec. 17th. Dear Sir Four editions of the Origin have appeared; that published last month is considerably added to & can be procured through any bookseller. I am glad to hear that you are interested in the subject. Dear sir yours faithfully Charles Darwin."" In November Darwin had copies of the substantially revised and augmented fourth edition of the Origin sent to Huxley and Wallace among others; their letters acknowledging receipt and praising the new edition are dated November 11 and November 19 respectively. The mourning stationery reflects the death of Darwin's sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin in October; another sister Emily Catherine Langton had died in January that year. See ""Darwin in letters 1866; Survival of the Fittest"" Darwin Correspondence Project online. Darwin Correspondence Project 5310F summary only. Very faint fold marks. Darwin's full signature bold and fine. Letters in which Darwin discusses his landmark work are particularly scarce and desirable. unknown books
1873rif. 484671873. Darwin Charles 1809-82. Origin of certain instincts. In Nature 7 1873: 417-418. Whole number. cix - cxii 417-436 cxiii - cxvi pp. 269 x 183 mm. Without wrappers. First and last leaves conjugate detached but very good otherwise. First Edition of one of Darwin's lesser-known discoveries. Darwin was the first to postulate in this paper the existence of an inertially-based navigational system in animals; his suggestion was confirmed by studies done in the 20th century. This type of navigational system now known as path integration uses input from the vestibular organs and other sensors in the body to enable an animal such as a migrating bird to estimate its position with relation to its home. Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin 1760. . unknown books
1882rif. 451781882. Darwin Charles 1809-82. Funeral of Mr. Darwin. Westminster Abbey Wednesday April 26th 1882 at 12 o'clock precisely . . . G. G. Bradley Dean. Printed card black-bordered with the Dean's seal in black wax in the left margin and the letters "C. H." in red ink on either side of the seal. N.p. 1882. 92 x 122 mm. Fine. Darwin had died at Down House on 19 April 1882 expecting to be buried in the local churchyard. His fame and reputation were such however that Huxley Galton and others felt it would be appropriate to have him buried at Westminster Abbey one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a British citizen. As Desmond and Moore put it "getting a freethinker into the Abbey was not easy" Darwin p. 666. But Huxley stepped in supported in Parliament by Darwin's neighbor Sir John Lubbock and by a press campaign led by The Standard. The Reverend George Granville Bradley Dean of Westminster Abbey was happy to acquiesce. The Chapter House to which our card allows admission is where those who were to follow the coffin into the Abbey assembled: "On that grey day committees adjourned judges put on mourning dress and Parliament emptied as members trooped across the road. From embassies scientific societies and countless ordinary homes they came. Under leaden skies they converged on the Abbey anticipating the awe and spectacle of a state occasion. In the Chapter House where Parliament had once met the elders of science State and Church the nobility of birth and talent stood waiting to file though the cloisters behind the coffin. They were "the greatest gathering of intellect that was ever brought together in our country" said one' Desmond and Moore p. 672. Darwin was laid to rest beneath the monument to Newton at the north end of the choir screen. . unknown books
1909rif. 45210Cambridge: University Press 1909. 47pp. Original printed wrappers 3-inch strip missing from lower spine corners chipped split along rear hinge. University Press unknown books
1880rif. 1104181880. London: John Murray 1880. 8vo x 592 32 ads dated May 1878 pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth backstrip titled in gilt brown coated endpapers hinges cracked a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip text block edges but not pages stained an unsophisticated copy. § § First edition first issue inscribed in Charles Darwin's hand "Elizabeth Darwin From her Father." Presentation copies from Darwin in his own hand are exceptionally rare most presentation copies were inscribed "from the author" by the publisher; a copy inscribed to a family member by Darwin himself is extraordinarily so. Elizabeth Darwin known as Bessy was Charles and Emma Darwin's youngest daughter and perhaps the most enigmatic of all their ten children. She is remembered as a quiet soul who lived in the family home until the death of her mother and then in a cottage on her own near her three brothers until her death in 1926. The book which Darwin has inscribed to her was written with the assistance of her brother Francis who had himself become an accomplished botanist. It is an extension of Darwin's earlier work on movement in climbing plants showing that the same mechanisms hold true for flowering plants in general. It was well reviewed and immediately sold 1500 copies. Darwin was an exceptionally affectionate father whose anxious feelings for his own children greatly spurred his study of inherited characteristics and of evolution. He and his wife Emma were first cousins a genetic liability that tormented him. This book written in partnership with one of his children and presented to another is a potent testament to the intertwining of scientific genius and fatherhood that so characterized Darwin and catalyzed his momentous career. Books inscribed by Darwin to his children are extremely rare on the market. The last such book at auction - a copy of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex inscribed by Darwin to his daughter Henrietta who had edited the book - sold for £90000 at Sotheby's in 2015. unknown books
1947rif. 1042631947. London: Collins 1947. slim 8vo 48pp. Original blue and white pictorial paper-covered boards. Taped backstrip some warping to boards browning to endpapers no dust jacket. Very good. § First edition third impression. Part of the 'Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures" series from Collins which includes the title 'British Golf' also written by Darwin. This volume includes a short history of British golf courses and other sporting clubs. Not in D&J. unknown books
1961rif. 16676London: British Museum 1961. In vol.2 nunber 6 Bull. of the British Museum Natural History. British Museum unknown books
1980rif. 38839Wellington NZ: Nova Pacifica 1980. Darwin Charles 1809-82 ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols. 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates incl. color. Wellington New Zealand: Nova Pacifica 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" "Publisher's Note". Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica unknown books
1970rif. 16080Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton 1970. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1958rif. 16673London: Oxford Univ. Press 1958. Oxford Univ. Press unknown books
1945rif. 17073London: Pilot 1945. Pilot unknown books
1873rif. 21091101New York: D. Appleton and Company 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First US edition octavo size 396 pp. Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882 was interested in the origins of life from a young age and when the "Beagle" had an opening for a naturalist his interest and reputation for "collecting observing & noting any thing worthy to be noted in Natural History" earned him the post on this voyage which would last for five years and which would become duly famous. It would become 'the key formative event in Darwin's life" and the many species he observed both living and extinct would foster "an intellectual ferment and fortify him to re-evaluate all of natural history" n.b. quote from the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This work "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" is "Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory following 'On the Origin of Species' 1859 and 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex' 1871. Initially intended as a chapter in Descent of Man Expression grew in length and was published separately in 1872. Darwin explores the biological aspects of emotional behaviour and the animal origins of human characteristics like smiling and frowning shrugging shoulders lifting eyebrows in surprise and baring teeth in an angry sneer" n.b. quote from Wiki. He "examined the causes physiological and psychological of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that 'the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited' and that most of the movements of expression must have been gradually acquired. This is the only book by Darwin illustrated with photographs" n.b. quote from the online History of Medicine and the Life Sciences. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full rust-coloured cloth over boards both boards with ruled borders and decorations in black the spine with gilt ruled borders and lettering light yellow coated endpapers with twenty-one in-text illustrations and seven Heliotype plates the plate facing p. 264 being a four-panel foldout fourteen pages of publisher's ads at the rear; octavo size 8" by 5 1/4" pagination: i-iii iv-viii 1 2-374 14-page publisher's catalogue at rear. ___CONDITION: Volume now near fine we had a professional name available upon request restore the joints head and tail of the spine; the boards clean straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and the sole prior owner marking we see a short gift inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper "from name to Prof Lakoff"; some overall light toning to the paper the four-panel fold-out illustration with a shallow crease at the top right margin and the fold between the third and fourth panels apparently having been neatly mended with glue at some point. ___CITATION: Freeman no. 1143; Garrison & Morton no. 4975. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1868rif. 6645London: John Murray 1868. First edition. Fine. 2 volumes octavo 23 cm. First issue points: 5 errata on 6 lines in Vol. I and 9 errata on 7 lines in Vol. II. LACKS ADS apparently discarded when bound by Henry Southeran. Bound in full tan polished calf double-ruled in gilt; six-compartment spine tooled in blind and gilt with black title labels. Marbled edges and endleaves. Ticket of Henry Southeran. A very handsome set! Darwin's sequel to the Origin of Species including his first use of the term "survival of the fittest" and his much-admired essay on pigeons. John Murray unknown books
1960rif. 110090NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 27. Both books complete and unabridged in one volume. A later printing. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . 1960s. Modern Library, hardcover books
1960rif. 75003NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 27. Both books complete and unabridged in one volume. A later printing. Very good in a very good moderate edge wear a bit faded along the spine dust jacket. . 1960s. Modern Library, hardcover books
1978rif. S11557Folkstone UK:: Dawson 1978. 1978. 8vo. 309 pp. Text figs. Green cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. Dawson, (1978). hardcover books
1962rif. S11575New York:: Collier Books 1962. 1962. Sm. 8vo. 512 pp. Index. Paperback; small nick on fore-edge. Very good . Collier Books, (1962). paperback books
1995rif. S11301New York:: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. 1995. Thick 8vo. xiii 605 pp. Frontispiece bibliography index. Quarter gilt-stamped gold cloth over gilt-stamped yellow paper-backed boards dust-jacket; jacket with small nick to corner otherwise fine. ISBN: 0394579429 FIRST EDITION. "Janet Browne's definitive. . . biography. . . will not be matched in breadth depth insight or joy in reading" Reidy Kroll & Conway p. 133. "There are innumerable studies of Darwin facetiously referred to as the 'Darwin industry.' However there are some that stand out. The best biography of Darwin was written by Janet Browne. Hers is a wonderful and wonderfully readable account of Darwin's work and life with many new insights" Watson p. 1259. A second volume was issued. Reidy Michael S. Gary R. Kroll and Erik M. Conway. Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO 2007; Watson James and Charles Darwin. The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea. Philadelphia: Running Press 2005. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. hardcover books
1888rif. 6779New York: D. Appleton & Co 1888. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A handsome example of the 1888 2nd American edition complete in 2 volumes and edited by Darwin's son Francis. Both volumes solid and VG in their russet cloth with very light wear at the spine crowns. Gilt-lettering along the spines and decorative rule to the front panels still crisp and bright. 12mos 1120 pgs. all told. Armorial bookplates at each front pastedown. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1960rif. S11075London:: British Museum Natural History 1960-61. 1960. Five consecutive issues. Series: British Museum Natural History Historical Series Vols. 2.2-2.6. 8vo. 27-73; 77-117; 153-183; 187-200 pp. Blue-green printed wrappers. Very good. British Museum (Natural History), 1960-61. unknown books
1880rif. S11074Leipzig:: Ernst Gunther's Verlag 1880-1889 1880. 7 vols. 8vo. Various paginations. Jahr. I Bands. I & II: Contemporary quarter gilt-stamped calf over blue cloth Jahr. II Band. IV: Contemporary quarter gilt-stamped calf over pebbled maroon cloth Jahrs. IV-V: Contemporary gilt-stamped half calf over marbled paper-backed boards; worn corners showing Jahr. I Bands. I & II front hinges cracked spine heads torn Jahr. I Band. I rear hinge cracked. Jahr. I Band. I ownership signature of Afracukes 1877 Jahr. II Band. IV free front end-paper library label. Good. All volumes are sold complete. Some articles are unattributed—authorship is offered where provided. The pieces by or relating to Darwin include: Jahr. I Band. I: "Biographische Skizze einer Kleinen Kindes" by Darwin 367-376 pp. "Offene Briefe und Antworten" by Darwin 173-178 pp. "Lamarck und Darwin" by Arnold Lang 132-142 243-250 408-417 510-533 pp. "Martnrer der Darwin'schen Theorie" by Ernst Krause 78-80 pp. "Du Bois-Renmond Darwin versus Galiani Review" by Friedrich von Barenbach 359-365 pp. "Darwin's Werk: 'Uber die Wirtungen der Kreuzung und Gelbstbetruchtung im Plfanzenreich' und seine Bedeutung fur unter Berstandnik der Blumenwelt Review" by Hermann Muller 57-67 457-458 pp. Jahr. I Band. II: "Dr. Francis Darwin's Versuche an insektenfressenden Pflanzen" 565-567 pp. "Karl Ernst von Baer und seine Stellung zur Darwin'schen Theorie" by S. Gunther 71-92 pp. "Zur Darwin-Literatur" by Wilhelm Obers Focke 93-94 pp. "Darwin Ch. Ueber die verschiedenen Bluthenformen bei Pflanzen der namlichen Art Review" by Hermann Muller 297-294 pp. Jahr. II. Band. IV: "Das salzfreie Urmeer und seine Consequenzen fur den Darwinismus" by Otto Kunke 33-46 pp. "Faust's Schatten an Ch. Darwin poem" by A. Fitger 335-338 pp. "Charles Darwin. Eine biographische Stizze" by W. Preyer 339-350 pp. "Das versohnende Element in der Darwinistischen Weltanschauung" by the editors 351-359 pp. "Erasmus Darwin. Der Grovater und Borganger Ch. Darwin's" by Ernst Krause 327-424 pp. "Philosophie Mnstik contra Darwinismus" by Otto Busch 425-429 pp. "Das salzfreie Urmeer und seine Consequenzen fur den Darwinismus" by R. Hornes 430-437 pp. "Die den Darwinismus beruhrenden Bortrage der KI. Bersammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte" 210-224 pp. "Zur Darwin-Literatur II. Review" by Georg Seidlik 232-248 pp. "Kramer Dr. Paul Theorie und Erfahrung. Beitrage zur Beurtheilung des Darwinismus Review by Frick Muller 495-502 pp. "Fortschritte die des Darwinismus 1875-1878 Review 509 p. Jahr. IV Band. VII: "Die geschlechtlichen Farbungen gewisser Schmetterlinge" by Darwin 72-74 pp. "Fruchtbarkeit von Bastarden zwischen der gemeinen und chinesischen" by Darwin 77-78 pp. "La Teoria di Darwin Criticamente exposta da Giovanni Canestrini Review" by Ernst Krause 403-404 pp. "Darwin Ch. und Krause E. Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Deszendenztheorie" by Hermann Muller 236-238 pp. Jahr. IV Band. VIII: "Ch. und Fr. Darwin's Beobachtungen uber das Bewegungsvermogen der Pflanzen" by Hermann Muller 258-271 pp. "Darwinismus und Asthetik" by Fellner von Feldegg 273-282 pp. "Linne als Darwinist" p. 60. "Eine neues Buch von Charles Darwin Review" p. 160. "Ch. Darwins Gesammelte Werte. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe. Aus dem Englischen uberfekt von F. Bittor Carus. XIII. Band. Stuttgart. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung E. Koch. 1881 Review" p. 408. Jahr. V Band. IX: "Krankheitsanlage und Immunitat vom Darwinistischen Standpunkte" 67-71 pp. "Eine Theorie der Schutzpocken-Impsung aus Darwinistischer Basis" by Wilhelm Obers Focke 322-324 pp. "Kleinere Mittheilungen und Journalschau: Vererbung" by Darwin 458-459 pp. Jahr. V Band. X: "Der Darwinismus in Talmud und Midrasch" 61-66 pp. "Die parasitischen Gewohnheiten von Molothrus Review" by Darwin 301-302 pp. Kosmos was a "well-known German scientific journal" founded by Krause in 1877 with Charles Darwin's endorsement Krause & Darwin p. iii. Krause "explicitly based the journal on 'the theory of evolution in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel.'. . . Furthermore it was in the pages of Kosmos that the bitter argument between Haeckel and Rudolf Virchow over the political meaning of Darwinism in Germany was played out" Browne p. 439. There were nineteen issues of Kosmos issued from 1877-1886. Not in Freeman. Ernst Gunther's Verlag, 1880-1889 hardcover books