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rif. PSHB8367John Murray 1882. 2nd edition 15th thousand. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering in excellent condition very minor bumps to extremities Chocolate-brown endpapers the rear endpaper a trifle rubbed the front pastedown bearing the Queen's Prize presentation label awarded to John Walter Gregory by the Kensington Science Schools in 1888. Gregory would become a distinguished geologist and explorer best-known for his work in Australia and East Africa. His copy of Darwin's famous work has been carefully looked after and is in very nice condition. John Murray, 1882 hardcover
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1874rif. 34420New York: Lovell Coryell & Company 1874. New edition revised and augmented. Cloth. Good. New edition revised and augmented circa 1874. A Good copy. 8vo. 705 pp. bound in publishers blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Tips edges and top/base of spine rubbed. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover paper is age toned. Text is unmarked. Lovell, Coryell & Company unknown
1971rif. 225835Limited Editions Club 1971. Hardcover. Minor sunning to spine else very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound without a slipcase. 362pp. illus.#366 of 1500 copies. Cream colored paper covered boards with quarter green leather with gilt lettering and designs on spine. Newsletter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1922rif. 160633London: John Murray 1922. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. hardback in decorated cloth xix 1031pp. text ills. index Based on the 2nd edition of 1874. Light wear to pale green decorated boards o/w a nice copy John Murray hardcover
rif. 41946London : John Murray 1894. Second edition revised and augmented. Thirty-first thousand. Octavo gilt-lettered green cloth corners and edges rubbed light foxing to patterned endpapers previous owner's name to half-title pp. xvi; 693; blank 78 text illustrations a very good copy. The second edition reprinted of Darwin's important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys Reprinted from Nature November 2 1876 p. 18. This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. Freeman 976. Â hardcover
rif. 6700New York: A.L. Burt. Very Good. N.D. Reprint. Hardcover. 798 6 pp. of ads p. 19 cm. No publication or copyright date. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Rub wear to spine edges and ends and the corner tips which are a little softened. Spine title is dulled. A few scuff marks and a few scratches to top edge of text block. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked with light toning. A reprint from the second English edition revised and augmented of this seminal work in evolutionary theory by British naturalist Charles Darwin. Illustrated with black and white engravings. The bookplate of noted Canadian archaeologist Charles Trick C.T. Currelly the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum is attached to the front free endpaper. . A.L. Burt hardcover
rif. 41948New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1872. Two volumes octavo brown cloth with black decoration lettered in gilt to spine chipped at head and foot of spines previous owner's name to endpapers Vol. I pp. iv; blank; vi 409; blank; 2 - advertisements; 2 - blank; 25 text illustrations; Vol. II pp. ii; blank viii 436 12 - advertisements 2 -blank; 51 text illustrations extensive index; a very good set. The second edition reprinted of Darwin's important work on natural selection. The third US edition based on the second U.K. issue of the previous year Freeman 938 with no list of Errata to Volume I and with the errors corrected. Freeman 943. Â hardcover
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1971rif. 90743New York: Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. In slipcase with monthly newsletter tipped in. . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. P18 . Limited Editions Club hardcover
1980rif. 102257Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1980. Hardcover. With the original illustrations. Limited edition. Octavo fully bound in green leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine. . Franklin Library, hardcover
rif. 41941London : John Murray 1882. Second edition revised and augmented. Fifteenth thousand. Octavo gilt-lettered green cloth edges slightly rubbed upper hinge tender pale foxing to endpapers slight marginal stain to lower portion of text block pp. xvi; 693; blank 78 text illustrations ownership inscription of C. J. Martin 1883 to preliminary blank annotated below 'fr. H. J. R.' a good copy. The second edition of Darwin's important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys Reprinted from Nature November 2 1876 p. 18. This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. Freeman 955. Provenance : Sir Charles James Martin CMG FRS FRCS 9 January 1866 – 15 February 1955 eminent British/Australian scientist who lectured at Australian universities for twelve years. 'During World War I he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps in Gallipoli Egypt and France as a pathologist with the rank of Lieutenant-colonel. He found some cases of enteric fever at Gallipoli were not typhoid but paratyphoids A and B and made a vaccine for all three. A memo to his colleagues on the different treatments for amoebic and bacillary dysentery was widely circulated by the army under Martin’s name . His contributions to the foundation of biological science in Australia were commemorated by the National Health and Medical Research Council which created the Sir Charles James Martin Overseas Biomedical Fellowships in 1951' - Wikipedia Loosely enclosed on the back of a letter to Martin from Australia House London is a manuscript note signed by Martin and dated Cambridge 1946 indicating this copy of Darwin's Descent of Man is 'probably the first scientific book I purchased. H. J. R. was my brother'. hardcover
1871rif. 10230London: John Murray 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First issue of Volume I second issue of Volume II. Complete in two volumes. Good. Green cloth generally rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges. Both volumes bound with forward leans hinges reinforced chipped half-title of Volume I restored with paper backing foxing throughout. Darwin's influential work that furthers his theories about evolution and natural selection. In fact the first issue of this book features Darwin's first use of "evolution. John Murray hardcover
1879rif. 1379563London: John Murray 1879. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 693 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards have splitting to joints bumping to corners rubbing to corners exposing boards rubbing to edges and mild shelf wear. Binding shaken. Textblock has light age toning moderate foxing to pages bookplates on both pastedowns marking in pencil on many pages splitting between pages 192 and 193 and between pages 262 and 263 and rear hinge completely split. 1379563. Special Collections - Downstairs. John Murray hardcover
1896rif. 11074London; John Murray 1896. 1896. Hard Cover. REVISED SECOND EDITION. Octavo pp xvi 693 1. 78 illustrations in text. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles & decoration to spine and blind-ruled border to boards; grey patterned endpapers. Light wear to spine tips and corners; a slightly shaken copy with cacked inner hinges but holding. Scattered light foxing mainly to prelims; tidy ownership inscription in pencil to first blank; no annotation. A Very Good copy. Scarce. Freeman p. 52. London; John Murray, 1896. hardcover
2020rif. x-1528716973Read & Co. Books 2020. Paperback. New. 804 pages. 8.43x5.51x1.81 inches. Read & Co. Books paperback
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1871rif. 142104London: John Murray 1871. First edition first issue 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 rubbing to the extremities with the spine gilt bright. 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
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1871rif. 100165New York: D. Appleton. 1871. 1st US Ed. second issue 2 Volumes complete original cloth boards decorated in black gilt spine titles. b&w illus pp vi 409; v 436 plus publisher's ads including ads for On the Origin of Species. Professionally recased in original boards. Very good condition. Ground-breaking considerations on the origins of man covering evolutionary development races of man and the role of sexual selection in species differentiation. First use of the word 'evolution' by Darwin page 2 last line of Vol. I preceeding its appearance in the 6th ed of 'Origin of Species'. Freeman 942. 1st US Edition. Cloth Boards. D. Appleton hardcover
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1874rif. 006457New York: D. Appleton and Company 1874. One of Darwin's most important works including the first reference to "evolution." First published in America in 1871; these are Very Good Plus to Near Fine copies of the Third American Edition from three years later. Bound in the original redish-orange cloth with ruling and decorations in black on the front covers; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; very bright and clear; unfoxed. Numerous illustrations within. Volume One has vi 409 pages. Spine lightly faded with rub to the head. Volume Two has v 436 pages followed by a 12-page catalog. Spine also lightly faded with rub to the head; rub to the rear edge of the spine. Solid and attractive copies of this seminal work. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover
