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180010635London: J. Johnson 1800. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. faded covers title page has a large cut out probably where exlibris was does not affect any letters. Interior generally clean with some browning to plates From the library of Algernon Peckover with bookplate. Paper is slightly blue shade. Fore edges with light stamp of University of Colorado`. First edition of Darwin’s valuable work on agriculture and gardening. The work is important for the understanding of plant physiology photosynthesis and plant nutrition. Darwin recognized here for the first time the key roles that nitrogen phosphorus and carbon played in plant growth. An advocate of progressive scientific agriculture Darwin stressed the continuity between plant and animal life.<br /> <br /> Darwin 1731-1802 grandfather of Charles Darwin was a remarkable polymath that worked as a physician naturalists medical botanist and inventor. He expounded one of the earliest theories of evolution and described the importance of sexual selection to continuing changes within species. In the present work Darwin laid the foundation of scientific agriculture by showing the productivity of crops could be increased. J. Johnson unknown
1806M15073Lisbon:: Joao Rodrigues Neves. 1806. 1806. 8vo. 4 vii 1 408 2 pp. 1 engraved plate facing p. 220; lacks front free endleaf. Original speckled calf; scuffed. Very good. First Portuguese edition translated by Henrique Xavier Baeta with his added notes. This is a translation of Darwin's Zoonomia and part of his Materia medica. Baeta a naval physician took his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra then his PhD in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral paper Dissertatio de Febribus Intermittentibus poecipus medendis 1800 and his work on fevers Comparative view of the Theories & Practice of Drs. Cullen Brown and Darwin in the treatment of fever and of acute Rheumatism London 1800 also touched on his interest of Erasmus Darwin. In 1800 he left Coimbra and moved to Lisbon opened his practice whereas in Coimbra he was being persecuted. In 1831 he was searched arrested and placed in jail where he remained until July 24 1833. REFERENCES: See: Ricardo Cabral de Freitas More destructive than guns: contagious epidemic fever and public health in Lisbon 1810-1812. SHS Web of Conferences 136 0 0 2022. Joao Rodrigues Neves. 1806. unknown
180441039London 1804. 468 x 376 mm. image size 282 x 241 mm. excluding caption. A few small marginal tears faint crease in lower margin but very good. Fine portrait of physician / naturalist Erasmus Darwin grandfather of Charles who himself included a statement of evolution in his poem "The Botanic Garden." The portrait was engraved by J. Heath after the portrait by James Rawlinson 1769-1848. unknown
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1824614967London: Jones & Co. 1824. Quarterbound hard cover in very good condition. No dust jacket. Tan leather binding with gilt detail to edges and gilt title author and date to spine. Complementary cloth to the remainder of the boards. Rebinding is undated and contains the content of the orginal textblooks from 1824 also in very good condition for their age. The new binding follows the arrangement of Darwin's work in volumes but retains the original pagination therefore pages 1-204 contains The Economy of Vegetation and The Love of Plants. Following on under pages 1-100 is The Temple of Nature. Finally a number of plates are included; The Beautiful Cupid The Fertilization of Egypt The Portland Vase and Tartarian Lamb The Portland Vase plus Handle and Bottom of the Vase Sections of the Earth Sections of the Strata at St Anthon's Colliery and four further Botanical plates. The boards are in fine condition as is the marbled pageblock. Four pencilled references noted on rear original free paper. The initial pages and the plates at the rear are notably tanned foxed and marked but the text within is in extremely good condition; clear bright and generally unmarked; minor and occasional foxing only. A lovely item; additional photographs or information available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Jones & Co. Hardcover
17918-E14869J Johnson London 1791. Hardcover. Good. Bound in full leather well worn corners bumped. J Johnson, London hardcover
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17931132625<p>Ireland: J. Moore 1793. Hardcover. Collectible - Poor/No Jacket. 2 Volumes. Original leather covers in poor condition. Vol. 1 has front cover but it is detached. Vol. 2 the cover has been repaired with cloth spine. Vol. 1 is Economy of Vegetation and Loves of the Plants with philosophical notes. Vol 2 contains The Loves of the Plants A Poem with philosophical notes. Fourth Edition. Author is grandfather of Charles Darwin. Each volume is 8.25x5.5x0.75 with 313 pp total. 2 pounds</p> J. Moore hardcover
179133222London: J. Johnson. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1791. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 214 126 & 202 pages; Contemporary mottled calf with cracked covers both repaired. Small bookplate on inside front cover and old catalog description tipped in. 2nd edition of both parts with all plates. . J. Johnson hardcover
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57216456-20Used - Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
197352843Menston & London: Scolar Press 1973. Limited edition no. 305 of 500 copies. Small 4to. viii xii 214 126 2 x vii i 184 pp. Publisher's green cloth gilt to the spine with a large gilt flower illustration to the upper cover top edge gilt original glassine wrapper. Plates reproduced including 5 folding. Slight wear to the wrapper very good. A facsimile of the 1791 first edition. Menston & London: Scolar Press unknown
1464London: J. Johnson. THE FIRST OF DARWIN'S FOUR MAJOR WORKS THE BOTANIC GARDEN" IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES Dictionary of Scientific Biography III 578-579. Erasmus Darwin 1732-1802 was a remarkable polymath working as a physician naturalist medical botanist and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. <br /> <br /> The Botanic Garden is an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets. It appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. "Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited "to entertain and charm." The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science. to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany. and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus.' <br /> <br /> "Darwin believed that prose was suited to abstract ideas but chose to write poetry for its ability to conjure up visual images; he drew upon the Rosicrucian doctrine of Gnomes Sylphs Nymphs and Salamanders presiding over the four elements in his personifications of all scientific technological and natural phenomena. Although William Cowper and other early critics greeted The Botanic Garden with praise" ibid. <br /> <br /> We offer Darwin's Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life Volumes I & II 1794 & 1796 separately. CONDITION & DETAILS: J. Johnson London. Complete. Two volumes. 4to. 12 x 9.5 inches; 30 x 24cm. Volume I: xii 214 126 1; Volume II: 2 ix 197 1pp. 20 engraved plates inclusive of five by William Blake and two 2 by John Henry Fuseli. Very handsomely rebound in full calf; blind-stamped on the front and rear boards. The spine is gilt-ruled with decorative devices in the compartments. Also a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. New endpapers. Minor foxing and offsetting see photos otherwise clean and very bright throughout. J. Johnson hardcover
1795019670London: Printed for J. Johnson St. Paul's Church-Yard 1795. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Quarto 4to. Part I: 3rd edition printed 1795; xx 200 pages of text. Part II: 4th edition printed 1794; viii 218 pages followed by Additional Notes with 124 pages. Leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards; hinges professionally mended. The spine has two large raised sections and is gilt lettered and decorated. Part I and Part II each contains a frontispiece. The text contains 19 plates including one fold-out and an additional in-text engraving. Previous owner's bookplate and notation on the inside front cover. Two plates are by William Blake Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado with 4 plates of the Portland Vase attributed to Blake but are unsigned. Two plates by Fuseli. Except for a few spots of soiling in the margins the text is clean and unmarked. Height = 285mm 11.25 inches. . Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard Hardcover
1791017068St Paul's Churchyard London: J. Johnson 1791. Two volumes bound in one. Volume 1 - Second edition 1791. Volume 2 - Third edition 1791. Blanche Henrey 470 . Illustrated with two engraved allegorical frontispieces 18 engraved plates one of them folding - the Cypripedium plate which is often lacking - and two hand-coloured quarto pp xii 214 126 ii; x 197 both frontispieces and title pages browned and with some offsetting from plate to title the plates of the Portland Vase and the Fertilisation of Egypt similar this last plate by Blake after Fuseli; the remaining botanical plates clean lacking the corner of page 171/2 a relevant pencilled note at the base of one page a few pages with foxing but otherwise very clean and sound internally with the armorial bookplate of the Dowdeswell family Pull Court Worcestershire on the front endpaper together with a shelf label and a small newspaper clipping; the hand-colouring on the two plates is particularly attractive and there is also an extra engraved plate fixed to the verso of the first titlepage - a portrait of Darwin engraved by Haughton after Rawlinson - this has caused a little waving of the paper; contemporary full calf a little rubbed and scuffed rebacked the old spine laid down and with some wrinkling. Still a good sound copy. The first poem The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions such as the history of the cosmos. The more popular Loves of the Plants promotes revises and illustrates Linnaeus's classification scheme for plants. One of the first popular science books the intent of The Botanic Garden is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's sexualized language which anthropomorphizes plants Darwin intended to make botany interesting and relevant to the readers of his time. Darwin emphasizes the connections between humanity and plants arguing that they are all part of the same natural world and that sexual reproduction is at the heart of evolution ideas that his grandson Charles Darwin would later turn into a full-fledged theory of evolution. This evolutionary theme continues in The Economy of Vegetation which contends that scientific progress is part of evolution and urges its readers to celebrate inventors and scientific discoveries in a language usually reserved for heroes or artistic geniuses. Darwin's attempt to popularize science and to convey the wonders of scientific discovery and technological innovation through poetry helped initiate a tradition of popular science writing that continues to the present day. Full Leather. Good. J. Johnson Hardcover
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1907600046NY: Swords. 1907. The second American edition. Contains "The Economy of Vegetation" and "Loves of the Plants." 1844 gift inscription; owner name; backstrip mostly gone; front board missing entirely. A poor copy priced accordingly. Hardcover. Poor. Swords hardcover
