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1845Best.-Nr. 32226AB1845. First Edition. Two Volumes bound in one. Dublin Martin Keene and Son 1845. Octavo. Frontispiece-Engraving "The ruins of Leix Castle Queens Co. - From a Sketch by Chidley Coote Esq." engraved titlepage 468 pages including Index / Followed by Volume II now titled "The Irish Monthly Magazine" - September - February Dublin 1846: 494 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and original spinelabel. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. An extraordinay Volume very rare with the Literary Notices on Charles Darwin's "Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyages of H.M.S.Beagle round the world second edition. With several interesting articles political poetic and literary. Among which is also "Mary Mansfield Or Ireland Ten Years Since". The Volume published at the outbreak of the Famine is the last reflection of an already shaken country which is entering a fate-altering few years. The Union Magazine - Volume I All published under this title Following articles are included in this very rare 1845-Volume: 1. The Position and Prospects of Ireland in 1845 2. Mesmerism - Miss Martineau's Letters 3. Memoir if Leix Castle Queens Country related to the Frontispiece 4. An Irish Queer Fellow - Peregrin Glass 5. Mary Mansfield Or Ireland Ten Years Since a continuation story through several issues of this Volume including chapters titled "The Ghost" "The Trial" etc. 6. Narrative of some Military Events in Scinde Beeloochistan and Afghanistan during the Years 1839 1840 1841 1842 and 1843 by John H.Hall Esq. H.M.'s 40th Regiment Nephew of the Late Captain Basil Hall continued through several issues 7. A Free and Easy Translation of the First Scene of the Andrian of P.Terentius 8. To L.E.L. in 1828 A fancy Sketch 9. The Irish Poor Law / Poor Laws Limerick Union 10. "Sketches of Character" - by the "Elderly Gentleman" 11. "The Country and the Town" 12. "A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box" with a page of Illustration of Jonathan Swift's Snuff Box 13. 'Tis a Hundred Years Since" 14. "The Difficulties of a Young Clergyman in Times of Division" - London 1844 15. "A Report to the Lord Bishop of Meath on the State of Elementary Schools in the Diocese and the Opinions of the Clergy respecting the question of National Education" By the Rev. Edward A. Stopford Archdeacon of Meath; with a Correspondence between the Lord Bishop of Meath and the Home Secretary on the Subject of the Report Grant and Bolton Dublin 1845 16. "On National Schools - A Tract for the Times in Ireland - By an Ulster Clergyman" - W.Curry Jun. and Co. Dublin 1845" 17. "The Irish Art Union" 18. "Luna by Day" by Jean Paul Fr.Richter 19. An Anglo-Latin Account of a Steam Journey from Dublin to London in 1845 A short Poem in Latin 20. Foreign Travellers and many more articles hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 129553Sydney: Finn Brothers Printers 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Sydney Finn Brothers Printers 1919. Quarto 40 pages including a 6-page nominal roll of No. 32 Quota with numerous illustrations. Four-colour pictorial card covers a little marked creased and slightly worn along the spine; inner hinges pulled; some tears to the gutter of the first leaf where it has been pulled away from the staples; minor signs of age and use; a presentable copy. A souvenir of the repatriation voyage of the troopship 'Port Darwin' in June and July 1919. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. Finn Brothers, Printers paperback
1872Best.-Nr. 15484Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1872. In-8 de [4]-XIII-[3]-420 pages, pleine percaline verte de l'éditeur, dos lisse orné, filets à froid sur les plats, liste des ouvrages en vente à la librairie Reinwald (Darwin, Carl Vogt, Louis Buchner) proprement collée au contre-plat. Cartonnage d’éditeur signé Lenègre.
1961Best.-Nr. 118London: The Botanical Society of the British Isles c/o The British Museum 1961. First Edition. blue boards. Very Good . 6 plates. 8vo blue boards edited by P. J. Wanstall illustrated with 6 plates 140 pages. Previous owner's stamp on ffe; slight mottling and rubbing to boards; internally clean and tight. Contains seven essays: one notably by Nora Barlow on "Darwin as Botanist." The Botanical Society of the British Isles c/o The British Museum hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 32936Chicago: Open Court Publishing 1892. 12mo. xiv 2 460 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Engravd frntsp. numerous engravings text illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettrng mnr bmpng to crnrs shlfwr VG- w/ numerous contemporary clippings laid-in. First edition of this first volume in the author's exposition of evolutionary biology including sections on the major proponents of Darwin and their advances and discoveries in classification morphology embryology palaeontology natural selection and more. Open Court Publishing, hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 43530London & New York: Macmillan and Co 1889. 12mo. 19.7cm The First Edition xvi4942p. ads for Wallace’s books; half title frontis portrait with 39 mainly text illustrations colour folding map expertly rebound in fine grain green book linen gilt spine titles in fine clean condition thus. Alfred Russell Wallace was a co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. He became a staunch defender of the theory and wrote extensively on it including this book Darwinism 1889. His most significant fieldwork was in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago. Macmillan and Co unknown
1982Best.-Nr. S8521Oxford:: Oxford University Press 1982. 1982. 8vo. viii 101 pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE. ISBN: 0192875566 Oxford University Press, 1982. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 324A very rare offprint from l'Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques published the same year as Darwin's Origin of Species in which Isidore traces the history of the notions of evolution and variability of the species developed by the French School of Zoology since Buffon. An important work on the history of science in which the author also asserts in the light of the Darwinian revolution his evolutionary views inherited from his father's work. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's "important views on the persistence of infantile characteristics among primates and on 'parallel' evolution appear to be original . In 1859 he published 'Résumé des vues sur l'espece biologique' in which he quietly reminded Darwin of his predecessors in France: Buffon Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire." DSB An interesting copy bearing a signed autograph dedication partially cut from the author to "Mons. Laugier offered by his very devoted colleague." This is certainly the surgeon Stanislas Laugier. Foxing and stains but a copy in its original binding with full margins. Darwin - Darwiniana GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE Isidore Résumé des vues sur l'espèce organique émises par les principaux naturalistes français du XVIIIe siècle et du commencement du XIXe et de la théorie de la variabilité limitée de l'espèce Paris Victor Masson 1859. 8vo of 40 pages ; original printed wrappers.
Best.-Nr. 54577Dawson Archon. London. 1978. pp. 309 iii. Portrait frontispiece 3 pedigrees sample of note-book signature in full and one text figure. Dust wrapper a very good copy. An immensely useful reference. Dawson Archon. London. 1978. unknown
2009Best.-Nr. 15634BBKöln, Wienand, 2009. 4°, 288 S. mit zahlreichen Farbabbildungen, farbig illustr. original Klappenbroschur, Erstausgabe Zustand: ungelesen und annähernd wie frisch aus der Buchhandlung, beiliegt eine original Eintrittskarte zur Ausstellung.
1871Best.-Nr. 2200159Oblong 8vo pp. 4 with nine anastatic plates by 'V H D'arwin the first folding and with poetic verses facing two leaves of introduction in the original publisher's bind stamped green cloth upper board lettered in gilt inner joints lightly cracked else a very good sound copy. Published to capitalise on the infamous Tichborne case then beginning to run its course through the courts. The poem recounts the history of the Tichborne dole of bread a charity festival active until the 1790's and held at the village of Tichborne in Hampshire during the Feast of the Annunciation. The tale concerns a curse by twelfth century Lady Mabella Tichborne on her descendants. This predicted that should the dole stop the family would produce only daughters and die out which indeed did happen with the male issue cut down by early death and shipwreck all of which paved the way to the interminable Tichborne claimant cause. The illustrations are very clearly in the style of Richard Doyle's The Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe which first appeared in Punch in 1849 they capture many of the more absurd parts of the tale in a mock medieval manuscript technique replete with a border of a dragon. The illustrator Violetta Harriot Darwin 1826-1880 was a half cousin to the famous Charles both sharing Erasmus Darwin as a grandfather. Although Charles descended through Erasmus' first wife Polly and Violetta through his second wife Elizabeth the cousins despite being near contemporaries appear to have had very little contact. A number of Violetta's anastactic topographical views were published in the 1860's and her illustrated version of Southey's Bishop Hatto: a legend of the Mouse-Tower on the Rhine in 1861 but these are both in a quite different style. The author of the poems Lord Nugent unlike many of the Grenville clan supported the cause of anti-slavery parliamentary reform religious liberty penal reform and the amelioration of the condition of the rural poor. He also inherited an aptitude for literary and scholarly pursuits as well as their tendency to corpulence and financial ineptitude. He was not a great poet however some of his smaller works found a willing space in the 'Annuals'. Under the less antiquated title 'The Dole of Tichborne' the poem first appeared first in the 1830 volume of The Gem. OCLC records only a second edition at the National library of Wales only. Bemrose and Sons
1894Best.-Nr. PW1191Edinburgh:: T. & T. Clark 1894. 1894. 8vo. xvi 358 10 pp. Crimson blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Ownership signature of Robert Maxwell Young. Very good a nice copy. PROVENANCE: Robert M. Young is a historian of science specializing in Darwinism. T. & T. Clark, 1894. hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. S8255Folkestone:: Dawson 1978. 1978. First edition. 8vo. 309 pp. Alphabetical dictionary of Darwin related information. Green cloth dust-jacket. FINE. Dawson, (1978). hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. S8254Norwalk:: Burndy Library 1960. 1960. 4to. 72 pp. Illus. folding facs. Printed wrappers; a bit soiled and rubbed but a very good copy. Burndy Library, 1960. unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. S6746Ithaca and London:: Cornell University Press 1981. 1981. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xv 834 pp. Blue cloth. Fine. Cornell University Press, (1981). hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. LLV2259London:: Society for Nautical Research 1979. 1979. 8vo. 285-382 pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Stansbury's contribution appears on pp. 355-357. Other articles in this issue include: "Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma" obituary; "Roman Triremes and the Outriggerless Phoenician Trireme" Lucien Basch; "Seamen in Dutch Ports c. 1700-c.1914" J.B. Bruijn; "Shipowning in Boston Lincolnshire 1836-1848" Stephanie Jones; "Whalebacks" W.P. Dunphy. Society for Nautical Research, 1979. unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. S12976Knoxville:: University of Tennessee Press 1997. 1997. 8vo. xxi 184 pp. Frontis. index. Tan gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title. Tracing the growth of creationism in America as a political movement this book explains why the particularly American phenomenon of anti-evolution has succeeded as a popular belief. Conceptualizing the history of creationism as a strategic public relations campaign Edward Caudill examines why this movement has captured the imagination of the American public from the explosive Scopes trial of 1925 to today's heated battles over public school curricula. Caudill shows how creationists have appealed to cultural values such as individual rights and admiration of the rebel spirit thus spinning creationism as a viable even preferable alternative to evolution. / In particular Caudill argues that the current anti-evolution campaign follows a template created by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan the Scopes trial's primary combatants. Their celebrity status and dexterity with the press prefigured the Moral Majority's 1980s media blitz more recent staunchly creationist politicians such as Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and creationists' savvy use of the Internet and museums to publicize their cause. Drawing from trial transcripts media sources films and archival documents Intelligently Designed highlights the importance of historical myth in popular culture religion and politics and situates this nearly century-old debate in American cultural history. publisher. / Edward Caudill is a professor of journalism and electronic media at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. ISBN 10: 087049984X University of Tennessee Press, 1997. hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 66330. The ship 'Beagle' is shown moored off James Island on October 17th. 1835. The topographical view is taken from the coastal sketch ordered by 2nd.Lieut. Sullivan at the time. The details of the 'Beagle' were taken from Admiralty charts and records. The artist JOHN CHANCELLOR 1925-1984 originally a merchant seaman latterly chartered his owm hydrographic survey vessel and on retirement became one of the foremost marine artists of the 20th. century. This painting of the 'Beagle' was one of his last productions - it took 500 hours of research and 750 hours at the easel is meticulous in its detail and full of atmosphere and interest. The run of 850 copies was sold out within 12 months and has been keenly sought since then. It is used on the 'Beagle Project' and the CUP 'Darwin On-Line' web-sites and is also the foundation work for the building of a replica 'Beagle'. Chancellor took considerable trouble to find the best colour printer for the work and the copy offered here is in excellent bright condition. We will of course send images on request. unknown
Best.-Nr. 66329. The ship 'Beagle' is shown in rough seas off Cape Horn. The details of the 'Beagle' were taken from Admiralty charts and records. The artist JOHN CHANCELLOR 1925-1984 originally a merchant seaman latterly chartered his own hydrographic survey vessel and on retirement became one of the foremost marine artists of the 20th. century. This painting of the 'Beagle' was one of his last works published posthumously. It is meticulous in its detail and full of atmosphere and interest. For a detailed discussion of the technicalities of the two Beagle paintings by ChANCELLOR himself see http:darwin-online.org.uk. unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 225283Ithaca: Cornell U. Press 1987. First edition first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine in fine lightly rubbed and spine-sunned dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed by David Kohn editor on the title page. Cornell U. Press hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. 60377AB2008. New York / London Sterling Publishing 2008. 23.5 cm x 26 cm. XII 544 pages. Hundreds of colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! Darwin's original writings on his theory of natural selection his travels on HMS 'Beagle' the scandal and advancement that came from it bound into a modern publication complete with fantastic colour photographs and plates of some of Darwin's original work in the illustrations etc. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 71542Cambridge the University Press 1909. 8vo 18.6 x 12.4 cm. 91 pp. Original red buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. In transparent sleeve. = This work by the Scottish geologist and president of the Royal Society Sir Archibald Geikie 1835-1924 is the full text of "The Rede Lecture. Given at the Darwin Centennial Commemoration on 24 June 1909.". The first 64 pages contain the actual lecture; the following pages contain 59 notes in smaller printing. The importance of Darwin as a geologist is overshadowed by his contributions to evolution but Geikie shows that Darwin was one of the greatest British geologists too. Geikie and Darwin were friends. Excerpts of letters by Darwin were used by Geikie in his "Prehistoric Europe a geological sketch" 1881 see Freeman. Slight foxing to the endpapers otherwise a near mint copy. Freeman 1351. hardcover
