Darwin, Charles

Autobiography of Charles Darwin: with Two Appendices, comprising a chapter of reminiscences and a state of Charles Darwin's religious views, by his son, Sir Francis Darwin

Watts & Co. 1929 iv, 154 , [2]-ads, . 169x108mm. HB. Orig. black-stamped cloth, front free endpaper removed. Ex-lib.: with usual markings. Good.. The Thinker's Library No.7..

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Darwin, Charles; Barrett, P.H. (Ed.)

The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin

University of Chicago Press 1977 xviii, 326, text figs. . PB. Withdrawn from an institutional library. Light crease to front cover. Signature of British palaeontologist Colin Patterson FRS (1933–1998) to half title page.. With a foreword by Theodosius Dobzhansky.. [9780226136585]

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Darwin, C.

Darwin as a traveller

Royal Geographical Soc. 1960 , . . PB. Wrappers. Vg.. The Geographical Journal Vol. 126 (2), pp 120-139. Author: Sir Charles Darwin, the naturalist's grandson. Issue includes other papers..

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Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex

John Murray 1874 xvi, 688, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 8vo in 12s (190x120mm), orig. green cloth, rubbed, minor wear to corners, a few ink spots to rear board; short tear to front endpaper, orig. owner's name erased to verso; later owner's name to pastedown; small ink smudge to outer margin of title; occasional light foxing; one gathering working loose, with stitching tender; small marginal stain to lower outer corner of 20 pages. A good copy. Without the Errata slip mentioned by Freeman.. 2nd edition, tenth thousand. This edition was issued as a single volume (the first edition (1871) is in two volumes), and the text is divided into three parts (rather than two in the first edition), with sexual selection in relation to man being separated off as the third part. This edition has ben extensively revised and contains a note by T.H. Huxley 'On the Resemblences and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes', pp 199-206. Freeman 944..

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Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

John Murray 1899 xvi, 693, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, short nick to head of spine. Newspaper cuttings from c.1916-1918 relating to the 'missing link' pasted to front endpaper. Vg.. 2nd edition, revised and augmented. 35th thousand. Freeman, 985..

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Darwin, Charles

Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Princeton University Press 1981 xxxix, x, 475, 78 text figs. . PB. Vg. From the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017), British dipterist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his ownership ink stamp to half-title.. With an introduction by John Tyler Bonner and Robert M. May. Photo reproduction of the 1871 edition published by John Murray, London.. [9780691023694]

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Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man: Part I and the concluding chapter of part III

Watts & Co. 1945 xi, 244, . 166x110mm. HB. Minor wear to top and foot of spine. Pencil notes by previous owner to rear endpaper, suggesting a thesis that considers the bible and Darwinian principles. Vg.. The Thinker's Library No.12., third impression. With a preface by Major Leonard Darwin..

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Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex

John Murray 1871 viii, 424, 16; viii, (2), 476, 16, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo (195x125mm), orig. cloth, gt, recased retaining orig. endpapers, neat repair to head of spine of Vol. II, hinges neatly reinforced; some wear to corners + spine ends, repairs to heads of both spines, joints rubbed/repaired, inner hinges neatly reinforced. Some foxing to free endpapers, half-titles and last pages of ads. A good set. bookplate of J.J. Seekings, Holmhurst, Barnwood, Gloucester, (c. 1839-1899) owner of a marine engineering works near Gloucester Docks during the 1870s-80s.. 1st edition, 1st issue. '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 of species" in the following year' - Freeman (1977), p. 129. 2 vols: viii, 424, 16 (publisher's ads dated Jan 1871); viii, (2), 476, 16 (publisher's ads dated Jan 1871). [Freeman 937]..

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Darwin, Charles

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

John Murray 1888 viii, 487 + 32, . . HB. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gt, rubbing/minor wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Light foxing to prelims, occasionally elsewhere. A very good copy.. Second edition, reprint (this edition first published 1878). Publisher's catalogue at rear, dated February 1888.Freeman 1254..

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Darwin, Charles; Wallace, Alfred Russel

Evolution by Natural Selection

Cambridge University Press 1958 viii, 288, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Good ex-lib.: name and small bookplate to endpaper; neat ink stamp to vero of title page, otherwise clean.. First edition. A Centenary Commemorative Volume. Papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace with a Foreword by Sir Gavin de Beer..

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Book number: S58688

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Darwin, Charles; Secord, J.A. (Ed.)

Evolutionary Writings

Oxford University Press 2008 xlviii, 485, text figs, map. . HB. Fine in d/w.. An edited collection of some of Darwin's most important writings, accompanied by selections of responses from Darwin's nineteenth-century readers. Also a deatiled introduction by James Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project.. [9780199208630]

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Book number: S55292

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Darwin, Charles

The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits

John Murray 1881 vii, [1], 326, [2], 15 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped green cloth, gt, spine a touch darkened, minor rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing to endpapers and final page only. A very good copy. With lengthy, contemporary newspaper review of the book (October 10, 1881) pasted to verso of front free endpaper. A card bearing a handwritten, contemporary acrostic verse on the death of Darwin (in which the first letter of each line spells the name Darwin), with initials R.F.F, is mounted on front fly-leaf. Provenance: 'To the model maiden of the 19th century Jessie Beck from Theodore Beck, Dec 13, 1881', with 3 initial letters depicted as worms (inscription to fly-leaf). Theodore Beck (1859-1899), was a Quaker and British educationalist, who worked under the British Raj in India, and was Principal of the Mahommedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, from 1883 up until his death in 1899.. Third thousand. This work was first published October 10, 1881, with the second to fifth thousand also being printed in the same year. 'The book was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies within a year, and 13,000 before the end of the century. To begin with it sold faster than The Origin of Species had.' (Freeman). Darwin's last book. With errata slip tipped in before page 1. Freeman 1359..

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Darwin, Charles

The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits

John Murray 1881 vii, [1], 326, [2], 15 text woodcuts. . HB. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped green cloth, gt, slightly rubbed at corners. Some pages unopened; very light crease to top corner of several gatherings. A very good, well-preserved copy. Book-plate of J. Kentish Wright.. Third thousand. This work was first published October 10, 1881, with the second to fifth thousand also being printed in the same year. 'The book was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies within a year, and 13,000 before the end of the century. To begin with it sold faster than The Origin of Species had.' (Freeman). Darwin's last book. With errata slip tipped in before page 1. Freeman 1359..

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Keywords: Charles Darwin; Vegetable Mould; Worms

Darwin, Charles

Insectivorous Plants

John Murray 1893 xiv, 377, 30 woodcuts in text. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt to spine. Gift inscription dated 1906 and small ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf, and name in ink to top of title page. A very good, clean and bright copy.. Second edition, revised by Francis Darwin, sixth thousand. (The second edition was first published in 1888).Freeman 1227..

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Darwin, Francis

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Vol. I-III

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..

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