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1877Best.-Nr. 14434London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1877. FIRST EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Charles Edward Fewster of Hull. First printing of Darwin’s original paper discussing sexual selection in his 1871 work Descent of man stating that the case of the “brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkeys” was the most interesting and perplexing to him. He quotes a work by Johan von Fischer partly published in Der zool. Garten. April 1876 dealing with the expression of monkeys under various emotions “which is well worthy of study by any one interested in the subject.” An interesting article on an interesting subject. Also included in this volume are two reviews of Darwin books as follows: 1 Review of the second edition of Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America London Smith Elder and Co. 1876 by John W. Judd. pp. 289-290; and 2 Review of The effects of cross- and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom London Murray 1876 by W. T. Thiselton Dyer pp. 329-332. In addition there are two testimonials to Darwin. The first p. 356 is a testimonial on Darwin’s sixty-ninth birthday a mistake in that he was sixty-eight in February 1877 from a group of 154 men of science of Germany presenting to him an album of their photographs. Darwin also received an album with the photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science from Holland. The second testimonial pp. 410-412 comes from Prof. P. Harting of Utrecht University also on the occasion of Darwin’s birthday who has sent a letter along with the photograph album referred to above from the Directors of the Netherlands Zoological Society and includes Darwin’s reply. The volume includes articles by many of the most important scientists of the day. Freeman 1773; Freeman 1776. Macmillan and Co. unknown
1849Best.-Nr. SRW1705London:: John Murray . . . publisher to the admiralty 1849. 1849. 8vo. xi 1 488 pp. Large folding oceanographic map showing the Approximate Limits of the Great Currents and Drifts of the Ocean scattered figures 1 engraved plate Hydrographic delineation appendices; final leaf reinforced at gutter. Original full dark green embossed cloth with gilt anchor device on upper cover in blind on the back cover Freeman notes that “in some copies but not all the anchor on the top board is gilt” as is with this copy no pocket in rear bottom board as per this issue; spine replaced preserving a remnant of the original spine corners and joints reinforced. Bookplate of Charles F. Cox New York; embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution Solar Observatory under George Ellery Hale being from his library donated to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good. Rare. FIRST EDITION second issue with pp.171-90 cancelled containing the corrected sheets including part of Darwin’s article. Freeman notes that most copies of the first issue including Darwin’s own were published with a separate 20-page cancellans inserted into a pocket inside the back cover. Freeman further states that some copies may have been issued without the cancellans as here. This collection of scientific articles on subjects relating to naval training was used as a textbook for cadets at the Royal Naval College. Darwin contributed the section on “Geology” which contained serious transpositions of the text which were cancelled and replaced with corrected sheets. / “Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 – astronomer mathematician chemist - was one of the most important British scientists of the nineteenth century. Son of the famous astronomer William Herschel he was persuaded by his father to pursue the astronomical investigations William could no longer undertake; John’s subsequent career resulted in a knighthood and a lifetime of accolades. This 1849 publication was commissioned by the Admiralty to encourage and assist naval officers to undertake scientific research while abroad. The work provides instructions in making and recording observations in a wide range of disciplines - astronomy; magnetism; hydrography; tides; geography; geology; earthquakes; mineralogy; meteorology; atmospheric waves; zoology; botany; ethnology; medicine; statistics - written by experts in these fields including G.B. Airy Capt. Beechey Leut. Col. Sabine R. Mallet Sir H.T. de la Beche W. R. Birt Richard Owen W.J. Hamilton Rev. Dr. Whewell Charles Darwin Dr. Pritchard G.R. Porter Dr. Bryson Sir William Jackson Hooker and Herschel himself. It was hoped that the instructions could also be used by other travellers to advance scientific knowledge and the work remained in print for over fifty years.” PROVENANCE 3: 1 Charles Finney Cox 1846-1912 New York. He worked as an American railroad manager holding roles including Assistant Treasurer of the Canada Southern Railway Company Vice-President of the Richmond & Alleghany Railroad Company and President of the Carthage & Adirondack Railway Company. He became Treasurer and President of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1896 Cox was appealing for financial assistance to fund a suitable building for the Scientific Alliance of New York including creating a 100000 volume library etc. Cox was an active member of scientific groups like the New York Microscopical Society and the Royal Microscopical Society. He assembled a notable collection of Darwiniana which was later acquired by the New York Botanical Garden in 1912 as a permanent memorial; 2 embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution Solar Observatory under 3 George Ellery Hale 1868-1938 being from his library donated to the Mount Wilson Observatory. REFERENCES: Freeman 1977 326; Norman 1057. John Murray . . . publisher to the admiralty, 1849. hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 38839Wellington NZ: Nova Pacifica 1980. Darwin Charles 1809-82 ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols. 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates incl. color. Wellington New Zealand: Nova Pacifica 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" "Publisher's Note". Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica unknown books
1838Best.-Nr. 69522London: Smith Elder and Co 1838. OWEN Richard. WATERHOUSE George R. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy R.N. During the Years 1832 to 1836. Part I II. Mammalia. London: Smith Elder and Co. 1838. Full Description: DARWIN Charles. OWEN Richard. WATERHOUSE George R. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy R.N. During the Years 1832 to 1836. Part I II. Mammalia. London: Smith Elder and Co. 1838-1840. First editions of Part I and Part II of Mammalia in two quarto volumes 12 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 307 x 241 mm. Part I. Owen Richard. Fossil Mammalia. 1838-1840. 2 iv iv 111 1 colophon pp. Complete with thirty-two lithographic plates by G. Scharf one of which is folding and two which are double paged. With the preface to the whole work and a geological introduction by Charles Darwin. Bound without the half-title but with the additional fly-title. Part II. Waterhouse George Robert. Mammailia. 1839. 4 xii 97 3 blank pp. Complete with thirty-two hand-colored lithographic plates and three numbered engraved plates. With the errata slip bound in before B1. Bound without the half-title but with the additional fly-title. This volume with a geographical introduction and notes by Darwin. Two volumes uniformly bound in half tan calf over contemporary marble boards. Spines each with red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Contemporary endpapers. All edges speckled red. Some repairs to inner hinges. Text is very clean. The final three plates in volume II with some foxing otherwise all plates are very clean. Overall a very good copy of these two volumes. These first two volumes out of the complete work in 5 volumes are the only two volumes to be published with introductions by Charles Darwin. In the first volume he writes a Geological Introduction and in the second volume he writes a Geographical Introduction. "Darwin contributed a geological introduction to Part I the Fossil Mammalia pp. 3-12 and a geographical introduction to Part II the Mammalia pp. i-iv." Freeman p 26. In 1832 Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Royal British Navy undertook a five-year circumnavigation of the earth. Fitzroy who was only twenty-seven at the time asked a young Charles Darwin to be the naturalist for the voyage. The five-year journey included passing the coastlines of South America and particularly the Galapagos Islands near Ecuador. Darwin collected numerous specimens and data from this now famous area and these became the basis for his theory of natural selection which was a key component in his masterful theory of evolution. "The lavish scientific record of Darwin's collecting endeavours during the five-year voyage of the Beagle originally issued in 19 numbers. The 166 plates 82 finely hand-colouredof the complete works were due to the tireless energy and flair which the relatively untrained ship's scientist put first into the collection of specimens and then into ensuring that the zoological specialists duly reported on them after his return. The cost of the plates was covered by a treasury grant of one thousand pounds but to complete the work for Smith and Elder who were publishers of large illustrated books and government publications Darwin had to persevere as steadily with his pen as with his gun and geological hammer turning himself into a considerable authority during the course of five years spent editing the work of others." Christies "He superintended the Zoology's text wrote introductions for the different parts and added notes from his various Beagle records about animal behaviour and habitats wherever appropriate while also supervising the printers proofreading the sheets arranging artists for the plates chivying the experts and keeping them all moving forward within a tight self-imposed budget" Janet Browne Charles Darwin: Voyaging 2003 p. 370. Freeman Darwin 9.1 & 9.2. Nissen IVB 384. Nissen ZBI 1391. Sabin 18649. HBS 69522. $25000. Smith, Elder and Co unknown
1987Best.-Nr. W2.168New York: New York University Press 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. green cloth hardcover with gilt spine titles. light cover rubs some spotting to topedges. V. 4. - Fossil Mammalia Mammalia; V. 5. - Birds; V. 6. - Fish Reptiles ISBNs: 0814717896 081471790x 0814717918. New York University Press Hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 38839Wellington NZ: Nova Pacifica 1980. Darwin Charles 1809-82 ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols. 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates incl. color. Wellington New Zealand: Nova Pacifica 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" "Publisher's Note". Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica unknown
1888Best.-Nr. 53153Warszawa Wydawnictwo Przegladu Tygodnio 1888-1889. Large8vo. In two uniform contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Top right corner app. 3 x 5 cm of both title pages cut off; volume 1 not affecting text volume 2 missing the n in 'Darwin'. Light wear to extremities otherwise a fine set. 2 X 11-357 III; 2 379 IV VIII V pp. Rare first Polish translation of Darwin's extensive work 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication'. It is the longest work and being so detailed was never a very successful one selling only about five thousand copies in his life time and eight before the end of the century" R.B. Freeman. Freeman 922. hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 53153Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Przegladu Tygodnio, 1888-1889. Large8vo. In two uniform contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Top right corner (app. 3 x 5 cm) of both title pages cut off" volume 1 not affecting text, volume 2 missing the n in 'Darwin'. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine set. (2), X, 11-357, III" (2), 379, IV, VIII, V pp.
1980Best.-Nr. x01b133s4IWP 1980 softcover Some tanning to cover and pages.Fine IWP paperback
1979Best.-Nr. Q-0914766465Iwp Publishing 1979-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Iwp Publishing paperback
1985Best.-Nr. G0931689023I4N00Be Good To Your Self 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Be Good To Your Self paperback
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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
1871Best.-Nr. 627197London: Bemrose and Sons 1871. 9 pp. 16.5 x 22 cm. Green cloth covered boards with decorative stamping in blind and gilt titling to cover; illustrated with nine plates and one folded plate as frontispiece. Rubbing to spine ends with a 14 x 5 mm chip to tail of spine edge of front cover. Starting to front joint at both head and tail but it appears that the tail split has been repaired with glue. Light bumping and light wear to corners of boards. Splitting along both front and rear hinges. Dampstaining along tail of front and rear endpapers but not to text or plates. Some foxing to initial and final pages. All plates intact with two of them still possessing their tissue guards. Overall a fairly decent copy of a scarce telling of the story of the Dole of Tichborne which has been illustrated by the half-cousin of Charles Darwin. . Hard Cover. Good. Bemrose and Sons Hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 2080302106806481Chuokoronsha 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chuokoronsha paperback
1915Best.-Nr. 89320New York and London: D. Appleton and Company 1915. Popular Uniform Edition Authorized Edition. Red cloth with paper spine labels. Very Good to Fine. 20 x 13.5 cm. TEG. Many leaves remain unopened. Illustrated. There is some spotting to the paper spine labels. An earlier version by this publisher was issued with a 2 vol set of the Life of Darwin; these are not present here. Titles include: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Second Edition revised and augmented. 688 pages. The Different Forms of Flower on Plants of the Same Species. 351 pages. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 7 photograph plates. 372 pages. The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. 326 pages. Geological Observations. Third Edition. 648 pages. 7 fold out maps charts and diagrams. Some scattered pencil underlining. Insectivorous Plants. 376 pages. Second Edition Journal of Researches… during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle"New Edition". 512 pages. The Origin of Species two volumes in one. With additions and corrections from the 6th edition. 365 and 339 pages. The Power of Movement in Plants. 592 pages. Assisted by Francis Darwin The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Third Edition. 3 fold out map small tears to 1. 1897 366 pages. There is a gouge to the spine. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication in two volumes. 461 and 478 pages. D. Appleton and Company unknown
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1904Best.-Nr. 34104NY: D. Appleton and Company 1904. 12 titles in 15 Volumes.The Origin of Species 2 Volumes; Descent of Man; two volume Life and Letters; Journal of Researches . . . during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World; Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands; and Parts of South America; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 2 volumes; The Descent of Man; Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; Insectivorous Plants; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species; The Power of Movement in Plants.; The Formation of Vegetable Mould. Some verso of title pages have "Authorized Edition". 15 vols. 8vo. Frontispiece portraits text illustrations folding maps. Publisher's 3/4 maroon leather over marbled boards. Leather somewhat rubbed darkened and scuffed esp. on spines. Corners have varying degrees of wear. Interiors very good some vols with mild foxing primarily affects first/last leaves. Life and Letters Vol II has a stain to its spine title. Descent of Mans half title has light stray pencil marks to half title. Origin of Species has a rear flyleaf with a dark blue pencil mark. Careful packing and fast efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. D. Appleton and Company
