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2026Best.-Nr. LRB25014943Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 594 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1897. A substantial biographical and documentary study of Charles Darwin combining letters recollections and an autobiographical chapter. The volume offers valuable insight into Darwin's scientific development his private life and the intellectual context of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. An important resource for readers interested in natural history the history of science and Darwiniana. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026Best.-Nr. LRB25014942Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 590 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1887. Study of Charles Darwin's life and correspondence presenting a biographical portrait of one of the central figures in nineteenth-century science. The volume is of interest for its documentary value its insight into Darwin's intellectual development and the historical context of the publication of his letters. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
1887Best.-Nr. BCNH2008A highly attractive uniform set of this monumental biography. The original cloth boards are firm and clean. Spines are slightly toned with minor bumping to the tips but the gilt titles remain bright and distinct. Internally the inner hinges are solid and secure. The text blocks are clean and remarkably free of the heavy foxing that usually plagues this title. Complete with the original tissue guards over the plates. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. AQ28006London: John Murray 1887. In three volumes. ix 1 395 1; 4 393 1; iv 418pp. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt to spines. A trifle rubbed. Hinges exposed armorial bookplates of Bernard Lord Coleridge to FFEPs scattered spotting. With a 4pp A.L.S. tipped-in to FFEP of Vol. II: 'Dear Mr. Rockstro I have to thank you for two most kind letters. It is very good of to value the book so highly - I am glad to hear of the big book and the flute for which as my first love I still have much affection. I often wish I had been taught other things as well as I was taught by you - there are but few who teach well I find. I have not forgotten that your day is Saturday but I am so seldom in town - I hope I find you at home someday. Yours ever sincerely F. Darwin'. The first edition of Francis Darwin's 1848-1925 monumental memoir of his father naturalist geologist and originator of the theory of natural selection Charles Darwin 1809-1882; with a contemporary letter in Francis's hand addressed to his former music tutor flautist Richard Shepherd Rockstro. Provenance: Bernard John Seymour Coleridge second Baron Coleridge 1851-1927 lawyer and Liberal politician grandson of poet John Taylor Coleridge. . First edition. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
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1887Best.-Nr. 5260047London: John Murray 1887. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Rebound in library buckram with sound binding and hinges. Pages clean tanned a few have crease at the start of volume 1. Editor was Charles Darwin's son. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 1206 pages. John Murray hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. 216113.CNew York: D. Appleton & Company 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in very good condition. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Pages are unmarked with several black and white plates throughout. Some light water damage near the edges. Yellow endpapers. Page edges are darkened and lightly stained. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and black and blind-stamped designs on the boards. Worn around the edges. Complete set includes an autobiographical chapter. Previous owner's signature on the ffep of the first volume. VG D. Appleton & Company hardcover
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1887Best.-Nr. 146465London: John Murray 1887; 1888; 1888. First Edition. Vols. II & III state Seventh Thousand Revised. Hardcover. ex library-good. 3 vols.: ix 395; 393; iv 418 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Family tree chart. 2 b&w drawings in vol. I. Facsimile page in vol. II. Green cloth. Corners bumped cloth on vols. II & III rubbed and wrinkled. Vol. I spine a bit cocked. Vol. III has tear in bottom of rear hinge. Vol. I has small label on front endpaper ink stamp on next leaf and title. Older subscription library bookplates on front pastedowns. Some spotting to text block edges. Vol. I plate opposite p. 320 is loosening at bottom. Contains a selection of 87 letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin an autobiographical chapter written by Charles Darwin for his family and an essay by Thomas Huxley "On the reception of the 'Origin of Species'". Correspondents include Charles' wife Emma his brother Erasmus cousin William Darwin Fox Asa Gray Charles Kingsley Thomas Huxley Charles Lyell John Murray II Herbert Spencer Alfred Russel Wallace and others. John Murray hardcover
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1887Best.-Nr. S15195London: John Murray 1887. ix 1 395 mis-numbered 539 2; iv 393 2; iv 418 2 3 portrait frontispieces 1 plate 3 text illus. . HB. 3 vols 8vo orig. cloth spines faded lettering dull some staining. Good set from an institutional library with small labels removed from spines; ink stamps of the Royal Army Medical College library to endpapers title pages and verso of frontispieces marked in ms 'The Fayrer Gift'; also with ink stamp of the Zoological Society of London marked withdrawn. Lengthy inscription to Sir Joseph Fayrer F.R.S. to endpaper of Vol. I 'from his very old friends at Oakfield Lodge . Denmark Hill 23rd January 1888'. Sir Joseph Fayrer 1824-1907 was a British physician who served as Surgeon General in India. He is noted for his writings on medicine work on public health including the official investigation on cholera and his studies on snakes and the treatment of snakebite in India including his classic Thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula with an Account of the Influence of Their Poison on Life 1874. Fifth thousand revised with errata corrected second issue of the first edition published in the same year as the first. Complete in 3 volumes. Freeman 1453. John Murray hardcover
1896Best.-Nr. 26664New York: D. Appleton 1896. US 'authorised edition'. V.g./No Jacket. Half leather bindinggilt lettering on spine Originally issued in 1889 by Appleton. Former owner's signatures Katrina B. Lewis on ffeps. recent owner's bookplates on front pastedowns. New York: D. Appleton hardcover
Best.-Nr. 62833John Murray. London. 1888. Seventh Thousand Revised. 3 volumes. pp. ix i 395 i Imprint i Advertisement i blank. Portrait frontispiece 1 plate 2 text figures; iv 393 i Imprint i Advertisement i blank. Portrait frontispiece facsimile of a page from the 1837 Note-Book with explanatory text leaf unnumbered; iv 418 i Advertisement i blank. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth top edges gilt spines a bit dull a few spots to the front board of v.3 otherwise a very good set ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN with a few of his purchase notes at the front of v.1. FREEMAN #1457 John Murray. London. 1888. Seventh Thousand Revised. 3 volumes. hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 317676London: John Murray 1888. 7th thousand. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth ix 395 393 iv 418pp. frontis.3 index Signs of use with bumps & rubbing to boards at edges o/w a nice tight clean set of an increasingly uncommon work John Murray hardcover
1959Best.-Nr. 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
2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1162997176Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 6.00x1.17x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
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