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1832rif. 4893England 1832. Letter written in brown ink on a folded sheet the back leaf containing an address in manuscript with a black wax seal a dragon with a D. The stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. Letter by Francis Darwin announcing the death of his mother. The letter has been addressed to Samuel Tertius Galton in Birmingham the stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. There is a black wax seal a dragon with a D on the verso. The text of the letter reads: My dear Galton /It has pleased God to remove our dearest mother from this world of sin & sorrow. She appeared to be much as usual until 2 o'clock & whilst sitting in her chair by the fire complained of general uneasiness. Sophie & I assisted her to the bed & she expired at 1/4 before 3 oclock in the presence of Dr. Bent & ourselves. She had thought herself so much better lately that Mrs. Hadley & Millicent were both sent home yesterday & the day before. /I hope Violetta will not suffer from this severe shock to us all. You shall hear again in a day or two. /Believe me affectionately yours / Frans S. Darwin. Violetta Darwin was the eldest daughter of Erasmus Darwin from his second marriage to Elizabeth Chandos Pole which took place in 1781. Violetta was married to Samuel Tertius Galton and the mother of Francis Galton. It is therefore likely that the Francis of this letter was one of her four brothers. unknown books
1881rif. 12585London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer and Williams and Norgate 1881. FIRST PRINTING. With 3 plates and 17 woodcuts in text. Original blue printed wrappers some minor chipping otherwise a very good unopened copy. FIRST PRINTING of this extensive article on the phototropism of plants written by Charles Darwin's son. He expounds upon a topic that his father had discussed on numerous occasions. Francis collaborated with him on the book On the power of movement in plants which was published a year earlier and this article is an extension of the research done with his father. Darwin 1848-1925 was his father's assistant as well as a botanist in his own right. He was the foreign secretary of the Royal Society a lecturer in botany at Cambridge and served as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He edited and in 1887 had published The life and letters of Charles Darwin. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer and Williams and Norgate unknown books
1887rif. 94486John Murray, 1887, in-8, 3 vol, 3 portraits-front, IX-[1]-395-[1] pp, 1 pl. + [4]-393-[1] pp, 1 pl. + IV-418 pp, Demi-veau rouge à coins, dos lisses et filetés, tranches rouges, Papillon d'erratum au T. I (devant la p. 1). Vie et correspondance de Charles Darwin (1809-1882) par son fils Francis (1845-1925). Seconde édition, parue la même année que l'originale. Francis Darwin, botaniste spécialisé en physiologie végétale, collabora avec son père à partir de 1875, notamment pour la rédaction de The Power of Movement in Plants (1880). Il enseigna à Cambridge à partir de 1884 et y occupa la chaire de botanique de 1888 à 1904. Petites rousseurs, pages légèrement jaunies. Petits accrocs aux dos. Bon exemplaire. Couverture rigide
rif. 118893aafStuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1887, gr. in-8vo, VI + 370 S. ; Frontispiz (Portr.- Darwins) + 3 Bl. + 383 S.; Front (Idem) + IV + 402 S. + 1 Bl., ill. auf Tafeln und Text Abb., Original-H.-Lederband. Schönes Exemplar.
1959rif. 104029New York: Basic Books Inc 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later edition. Foreword by George Gaylord Simpson. Two volumes. Both volumes near fine with a tanned spine with volume two having a tiny hole in the spine. Both lacking the dustwrappers but both are inside the publisher's slip case. Basic Books, Inc hardcover books
1902rif. 12581London: John Murray 1902. Second Edition Sixth Thousand in this Form. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition Sixth Thousand in this Form. Hardcover. The portrait frontispiece is engraved from the study by Mrs. Cameron. The abridged version of Francis Darwin's life of his father the fourth edition of the 'Life and Letters' overall first app.eared in 1892. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelf/edge wear focused at tips and hinges head/tail front joint cracked but tight light even toning to text block else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo 348pp. illus b/w plates with a tissue-guarded photogravure toned in sepia portrait frontispiece index. Green cloth boards with stamped designs gilt titling. John Murray hardcover books
1968rif. 12583Oxford: Institute of Psychophysical Research 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelf/edge wear evidence of adhesive on boards former library marks else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo 144pp. Red cloth boards ex-library pastedowns withdrawl stamps. Institute of Psychophysical Research hardcover books
1878rif. 572London: Macmillan 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE DARWIN'S FISSION THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The history of modern lunar origin theory dates to this paper. A reprint of this paper was published in the 1879 Philosophical Transactions; that paper is sometimes misidentified as a first edition but it is not. This paper the one appearing in 1878 in Nature is the true first. "Before Kuiper revived the double planet thesis George Darwin son of the famous British naturalist had in 1878 advanced an attractive alternative. Drawing on the pronounced tidal effects exerted between the earth and moon Darwin speculated that the moon's mass had been ejected from a fluid and rapidly spinning protoearth when centrifugal force and solar tides acting on matter in the earth's equatorial plane exceeded the force of gravity. In time the moon moved out to its present orbit and attained its coincident period of rotation and revolution as a result of tidal interactions between the two bodies. Darwin proposed that these tidal effects on the spherical shape of the earth have changed as the moon has moved farther away in its orbit. Darwin's proposed idea for the creation of the moon came to be known as the "fission theory" of lunar formation. This theory basically stated that the moon broke away from the earth due to its rapid rotation. From this he also calculated that it would have taken at least 56 million years for the moon to reach its current distance from the earth" Giedd Tidal Friction. Darwin argues "that tides raised by the Moon imply an Earth much closer to the Moon far in the past. Modeling Earth and Moon as a viscous liquid rather than a system dominated by oceans and basins Darwin calculated that the two bodies merged about 50 million years ago with the system rotating every five hours" Crottis The New Moon 159. CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan. 4to. 11 x 8.25 inches; 275 x 206mm. Ex-libris bearing only minimal markings - a few stamps on the title page and none whatsoever on the spine. Full volume. Handsomely and professionally rebound in half leather. 5 raised bands at the spine gilt-ruled. One red morocco label; one black morocco label; both gilt-lettered. Tightly and very solidly bound. Clean and bright throughout. Very good condition. Macmillan hardcover
rif. 27985London the Royal Society 1882. 4to. iv vii 357 pp. 18 lithographed plates. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt titles on spine. = Published in the famous Transactions of the Royal Society PMM 148. The paper by the second son of Charles Darwin the astronomer Sir George Howard Darwin 1845-1912 occupies 45 pp. a bound in slip to correct a word therein and a loose leaf with corrections to Darwin's paper. Other papers are by W. K. Brooks on the Lucifer Young and Forbes on the velocity of white and coloured light and some others. Some slight rubbing to the boards otherwise a clean nicely bound copy. hardcover
1897rif. 45786Stockholm Beijer 1897 Leipzig B. G. Teubner 1899. Acta Mathematica 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica 21. Band. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 99-242 4 plates. Mathematische Annalen 8vo. Original printed wrappers no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Herausgegeben von A. Clebsch und C. Neumann. 51. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. A fine and clean copy. Darwin: Pp. 523-583. Entire issue: Pp. 481-607 4 plates. First printing of Darwin's famous paper including the abridgement published two years later which contained the first systematic search for periodic orbits and work on the three body problem. "The paper which had taken him three years to complete contained the numerical calculations of periodic solutions of the restricted three body problem together with a discussion of their stability. It provided not only extensive details of the numerical results but also a full description of the mathematical methods used to obtain them." Barrow-Green Poincaré and the three body problem P. 194. Darwin was introduced to the three body problem through the works of Poincare. Following his accession to the Plumian chair Darwin delved even more deeply into the problems of the origin and evolution of the solar system making numerous investigations of the figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid and later making extensive studies of periodic orbits in the restricted problem of three bodies carried out with special reference to cases obtaining for the particular values of the mass ratio of the two finite bodies of 1:10 and 1:1048 the latter approximating the mass ratio of Jupiter to that of the sun. DSB unknown
rif. 47471Cambridge 1907-1916. Four of five volumes in four. Large 8vo 26.0 x 17.4 cm. 2240 pp. numerous figures. Original uniform dark blue buckram. Spines with gilt title. = The works of Darwin's second son with his own evolution theory about the origin of the moon! Sir George Howard Darwin 1845-1912 was the fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar but soon returned to science and to Cambridge where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His work was concerned primarily with the effect of the sun and moon on tidal forces on Earth and with the theoretical cosmogony which evolved from practical observation: he formulated the fission theory of the formation of the moon that the moon was formed from still-molten matter pulled away from the Earth by solar tides. He also developed a theory of evolution for the Sun-Earth-Moon system based on mathematical analysis in geophysical theory. In total five volumes were published of which these are the first four. The fifth contains additions. They are all very scarce. Do not confuse this original edition with the inferior size-reduced Krauss reprint or modern soft cover reprints. Ex library with stamps and wear to spine feet; otherwise very good. paperback
rif. 57840Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Part II. 1879. 4to. . pp. ii 447-538. 1 lithographed plate. Original printed wrappers loose dusty and frayed the plate damp-marked at the top edge signed by G. H. Darwin in pencil at the top edge of the front cover. Sir George Darwin had been elected FRS in 1879 the year of publication of this paper. His first paper to the Society the memoir 'On the Influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation' was read in 1876 and published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions 1877. All of his scientific work from that time onwards concentrated upon aspects of cosmogony. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part II. 1879. 4to. unknown
rif. 57839Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Part II. 1881. 4to. pp. ii 491-535 iii. 3 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers dusty and frayed along the spine a deep sepia offsetting onto the blank leaf facing the plates from an inserted carbon print of the author not offered with this item but available separately the offsetting very faintly affecting the following plate the last two plates with the lower corners dampmarked. G. H. DARWIN 1845-1912 5th. child second son of Charles and Emma Darwin FRS 1879 Plumian Professor of Astronomy Cambridge 1883 concentrating his work on theories of cosmogony. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Part II. 1881. 4to. unknown
1952rif. T01540London: Cassell & Co. 1952. First UK Edition . Hardcover. VG. 8 x 11. A classic book on the history of golf. 312 pages in very good condition. Many illustrations. Inscription on the ffep. Green hardcovers; gilt titles on a leather spine label. Label a little stained light wear on corners and edges. VG Cassell & Co. hardcover
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1904rif. 294Budapest: Királyi. Magyar. Természettudományi Társulat 1904. First Hungarian edition. In original blind stamped cloth gilt title on spine. In good condition. With numerous illustrations. With numerous illustrations. First Hungarian edition. In original blind stamped cloth gilt title on spine. XV 1 308 p. First Hungarian edition of “The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System” by Sir George Howard Darwin the second son of Charles Darwin on the effects of tidal friction on the Earth–Moon system. Slightly amended edition. E.g. the diagram and details on Poincaré’s pear-shaped figures pp. 238–241. . K[irályi]. M[agyar]. Természettudományi Társulat unknown
1960rif. 177789Academic Press 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Published by Academic Press 1960. Octavo. Book is very good with previous owner stamp and label on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good. A nice copy of this book on metallurgy scarcely found in dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. Academic Press hardcover
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1908rif. g6551London: The Royal Society. G : in good condition plus without dust jacket. Lower board marked. Spine rubbed with light wear to head. Contents VG. 1908. First Edition. Maroon buckram backed cloth. 320mm x 230mm 13" x 9". iv 192pp. 2 coloured maps 21 plates including one folding and 7 of the aurora borealis in colour. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . The Royal Society hardcover
2026rif. LRB503238Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 632 pages. Volume 4 of a multi-volume work. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1907-16. Études scientifiques réunies autour des travaux de George Howard Darwin J. Jackson et Frederick John Marrian Stratton couvrant des sujets de physique mathématique d'astronomie et de sciences appliquées au début du XXe siècle. L'ensemble intéressera les chercheurs bibliophiles et historiens des sciences par la diversité des contributions et leur caractère spécialisé. Collected scientific studies associated with George Howard Darwin J. Jackson and Frederick John Marrian Stratton covering subjects in mathematical physics astronomy and applied science in the early twentieth century. The volume will appeal to researchers collectors and historians of science for the range of specialized contributions it brings together. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026rif. LRB4006398Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 544 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1907-16. Text in English. This collection of scientific papers by Sir George Howard Darwin comprises five volumes published between 1907 and 1916. The works cover a range of topics including oceanic tides lunar disturbances of gravity tidal friction cosmogony figures of equilibrium in rotating liquids and periodic orbits. The final volume includes biographical memoirs by Sir Francis Darwin and Professor E. W. Brown as well as lectures on Hill's lunar theory. Edited by F. J. M. Stratton and J. Jackson this compilation reflects Darwin's significant contributions to geophysics and astronomy. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026rif. LRB50000877Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 632 pages. Volume 4 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1907-16. Text in English. This collection of scientific papers by Sir George Howard Darwin a prominent astronomer and mathematician covers a range of topics including oceanic tides lunar disturbances tidal friction cosmogony and figures of equilibrium. The volume also includes biographical memoirs and lectures on Hill's lunar theory edited by F. J. M. Stratton and J. Jackson. These papers reflect Darwin's significant contributions to geophysics and celestial mechanics. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026rif. LRB50000875Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 556 pages. Volume 3 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1907-16. Text in English. This collection of scientific papers by Sir George Howard Darwin covers a range of topics in astronomy and geophysics. The five volumes include studies on oceanic tides lunar disturbances of gravity tidal friction cosmogony and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquids. The final volume also contains biographical memoirs and lectures on Hill's lunar theory. A seminal work in the field of celestial mechanics. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
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