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ref. 0226136639.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1892ref. SKU1012731John Murray 1892. Hardcover. Good. Overall in great condition with a few minor points. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Some dark spots to the bottom cover. The spine is slightly cocked. The spine is cracked at the back blank page but the binding is solid. Pictures available upon request. John Murray hardcover
1897ref. 138075New York: D. Appleton & Company 1897. Authorized Edition. Fine Binding. Very Good in boards. Rubbing along spine edges. D. Appleton & Company unknown
ref. 6103719920Benediction Classics . Hardback. New. pp. 348 Benediction Classics hardcover
ref. 6610841Cambridge University Press CUP . Papeback. New. pp. 340 Cambridge University Press CUP unknown
1881ref. 51348John Murray 1881. 8vo. Fifth Thousand with 15 woodcuts a number full-page in the text; green arches-style cloth boards framed in blind gilt back chocolate endpapers uncut upper hinge just starting but binding entirely sound else a near fine copy. With publisher's advertisment leaf at end. Darwin's final work reverting to his early geological iterests. First published in October 1881 it was remarkably successful selling 6000 copies within the year a faster sales rate than the 'Origin'. In this fifth impression the errors of the first four are corrected and several new textual changes introduced.VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman Darwin 321; see also Freeman BNHB 917. John Murray, hardcover
1897ref. 355490720961London: John Murray 1897. Hard Cover. Thirteenth Thousand with illustrations. Publisher's original green cloth with blind-stamped borders to front and rear boards gilt lettering to the spine very dark brown endpapers firm no splitting. pp. vii 326 with 15 text woodcuts. 19 works listed on verso of title page. A bookseller's ticket to the top left hand corner of the front past-down two former owner's names in fountain pen to the second front free end-paper slight softening to the spine tips overall VG with bright and clean boards. An attractive copy of Darwin's last book. Now smartly covered in removable clear acetate. Photographs/scans available upon request. John Murray hardcover
1896ref. 053272D Appleton 1896. Early Reprint . Hardback. Good/No DW. marbled boards top edge guilt small loss of leather at the heel of the spine else very good D Appleton hardcover
1888ref. 26371John Murray 1888. 8vo. Eleventh Thousand First Impression with 15 woodcuts a number full-page in the text small corner loss from front free endpaper neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; green decorative arches-style cloth boards framed in blind gilt back uncut chocolate endpapers a remarkably bright clean copy. First impression of the Eleventh Thousand which contains the altered footnote on p.7. Edited by Francis Darwin. Freeman Darwin 327; Freeman BNHB 917. John Murray, hardcover
1888ref. 9895538John Murray 1888. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In good all round condition. Medium green cloth 8vo with blind borders on boards and gilt border and lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and light general wear. Brown end papers. Front hinge split. Binding tight. A couple of pages have marginal pencil markings. Trimmed. Some foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
ref. 76638London Henry Colburn 1881 REPRINT Bruxelles Culture et Civilisation 1969. 8vo 225 x 150 cm. vii 326 pp. Full mock leather. Spine with black labels and gilt title. = A fine carefully made reprint of one of the major contributions to natural history and ecology by Charles Darwin. A very good clean copy. hardcover
ref. 18860London: John Murray 1888. . 8vo 19.8cm. Pp. viii328 15 figures in text index publisher's catalogue of 32 pp. at end. Original green cloth gilt title and decoration to backstrip. Little foxing to first and last leaves very good otherwise. - Freeman 1372. First published in 1881. - phd.272 London: John Murray, 1888. hardcover
ref. FORT973552John Murray. Used - Good. 1883. The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on their habits. Ninth Thousand Corrected. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. John Murray hardcover
1904ref. AQ27403London: John Murray 1904. viii 298pp 2. Original publisher's green cloth lettered and decorated black. With the original publisher's dustwrapper printed with all the available works of Darwin from John Murray. Remarkably bright and clean; the wrapper lightly tanned torn at foot of spine. Charles Darwin 1809- 1882 English naturalist and biologist whose seminal work On The Origin of Species 1959 is the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin was interested in the study of earthworms as early as 1837 evidenced by his paper on the role of earthworms in soil formation which he presented at the Geological Society of London in the November. Worms was his last scientific work first published the year before his death in 1881. Few copies of Darwin's works survive as this copies does in early dustwrappers. . Thirteenth Thousand. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
1882ref. 53546London: John Murray 1882. Seventh thousand corrected 8vo viii 328 2 pp. 15 illustrations in the text light foxing to the first and last couple of leaves. Original gilt tilted dark green cloth spine and edges of the upper cover a little darkened a very good copy. First published the previous year. Freeman 1364. London: John Murray unknown
1896ref. 39180New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Reprint. Leather. Very Good. Reprint 1896. A Very Good copy. 8vo. 326 pp. bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled paper gilt spine title top edge gilt. Minor rubbing to tips edges and spine. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Text appears unmarked. D. Appleton and Company unknown
1882ref. 180981London: John Murray 1882. First edition sixth printing following the first of the previous year with a contemporary albumen portrait photograph of Darwin mounted to the front free endpaper verso. The photograph heavily faded was taken by Herbert Rose Barraud 1845-1896 and was the last portrait taken before Darwin's death in 1882. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Original green cloth spine lettered in gilt brown endpapers. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper; 20th-century bookplates of Esme Nicoll née Bowker in both her maiden and married names. Slight lean to spine a little toned. A very good copy. Freeman 1362. hardcover
1881ref. 64091London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1881. 8vo. vii 1 326 pp. plus 2 pp. of publisher’s advertisements. With 15 text woodcut engravings. Green publisher’s cloth borders embossed in blind on covers gilt lettering on spine minor bumping at corners edgewear inner hinges repaired minor darkening to spine still VG- copy from Mudie’ Select Library lending library on New Oxford Street with One Guinea per month subscription label on front cover and armorial bookplate on front pastedown with play on the Titus Andronicus quote “Non eget Mauri jaculis.” First edition “fifth thousand” of the author’s pioneering study in quantitative ecology. Darwin here in his final work describes the essential role performed by earthworms in eating leaves and other organic matter grinding and circulating the earth for fertilization and aeration. From the weight of worm-castings he calculated that 18 tons of soil per acre are brought to the surface by worms every year. See: Freeman 1357; British Natural History Books 97. John Murray, Albemarle Street, hardcover
ref. 1528774663.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 117411London John Muray 1881. 8vo. vii blank 326 2 pp. with 15 woodcuts in pagination. Half-titel and title page with foxing verso of title with off-setting. Publ. standard green cloth edges trimmed a slight crack in inner front hinge but still firm. Owner’s signatur of Bernhard Lundgren dated 1888 library stamp of E. W. Olbers and book plate of Nils Uddenberg. Freeman 1358. First edition second issue. ”The first edition went to press on May 1 1881 and was published on October 10. The issue was said to have been of 2000 copies but this cannot be entirely correct because copies of the second thousand have this printed on the title page. However these two are otherwise identical. The binding was standard with the word 'Earthworms' in the spine title although this does not occur on the title page” Freeman.Nils Uddenberg 1938-2025 was physician and author of works in scientific history. He wrote several articles about Darwin and also translated ”The Descent of Man” to Swedish in 2006 ”Människans härkomst och könsurvalet”. hardcover
1898ref. 54301NY: D. Appleton & Company. Near Fine. 1898. Hardcover. Red cloth gilt TEG. Authorized edition. Spine faintly toned. Most pages unopened. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; vii326 pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1881ref. 144232London: John Murray 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1881 fourth thousand/ 1881. Octavo viii 326 2 list of Darwin's works colophon pages with 15 illustrations. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the sides; all edges uncut; slight wear to the extremities; leaves adjacent to the endpapers foxed with scattered light foxing elsewhere; front hinge lightly stabilised; one preliminary leaf creased with a few short marginal tears expertly sealed; a few minor signs of age and use; a very good copy. 'This last book is outside the main stream of Darwin's work and reverts to his earlier geological interests. He had indeed published a paper on mould in 1838 in the "Proceedings of the Geological Society of London" Vol. ii pp. 5-74-76 which he had read to the Society in the previous year. The book was remarkably successful selling 6000 copies within a year and 13000 before the end of the century . Darwin comments that he corrected the sixth thousand of 1882' Freeman R.B.: 'The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist' page 33. Freeman 322. Darwin died on 19 April 1882 soon after the publication of this edition. Provenance: Dr Kenneth Ernest Lee 1927-2007 distinguished NZ-born Australian soil scientist with his signature and 1982 book purchase details at the head of the title page. Loosely inserted in the book is his obituary: not least it records that Lee's influential 1985 publication 'Earthworms: their Ecology and Relationships with Soils and Land Use' was the direct descendant of Darwin's pioneering work. Mounted on the front pastedown is the earlier armorial bookplate of James Rankin 'Prudentia et Virtute'. John Murray hardcover
1881ref. 50588London: John Murray 1881. First edition. 8vo. viii 326 2 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the boards ownership inscription "Helen Fryer 1881" to the head of the title page. 15 illustrations in the text. Neatly recased light foxing to the front and rear very good overall. Freeman 1357. London: John Murray unknown
ref. 1024291723.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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