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1863181331London: Williams and Norgate 1863. Exploring human evolution some seven years before Darwin's Descent of Man First edition first issue presentation copy inscribed in a secretarial hand "from the author" on the half-title. Evidence is Huxley's key work deliberately written for a non-specialist audience and among his most influential contributions to the theory of human evolution being the first to bring together anatomical and embryonic evidence. In the Origin of Species Darwin carefully avoided the implications of his theory for humanity but Huxley boldly brought them to the fore. In the early 1860s Richard Owen had asserted that human and ape brains were fundamentally different and that the hippocampus minor was exclusively found in humans. In Evidence Huxley uses extensive dissectional evidence to disprove this emphasizing the human-ape commonality and relying on Darwinian evolution for his theoretical underpinnings. The work was also among the first to publicize the discovery of Neanderthal man. The first issue prints the frontispiece on the verso of the second leaf forming an integral part of the preliminaries and the "Advertisement to the Reader" appears on the recto of the fourth. Octavo pp. viii 159 1 8. Wood-engraved frontispiece extensive illustrations in the text. With 8 pp. of publisher's advertisements dated February 1863 at rear. Original green pebble-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind covers panelled in blind brownish-red endpapers with printed advertisements. Near-contemporary blue ink ownership stamp of chemist and publisher John Balcomb 1841-1918 of Cheltenham to half-title. Infrequent pencil sidelining to contents. Light bumping wear and toning head of front joint starting infrequent minor foxing to otherwise fresh contents: a very good copy. Cushing H554; Garrison-Morton 165; Heirs of Hippocrates 1033; Norman 1132; Osler 1605; Waller 10853. hardcover
186332820395<p>Original cloth paper spine label chipped. Very good. Cloth case</p><p>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. <b>From the library of Millard Fillmore 13th president of the United States 1850-1853 with his signatures dated May 22 1863</b> on the title and on the front pastedown.</p><p>Huxley "Darwin's bulldog" was the leading defender and promoter of Darwinism in the years following the publication of <i>On the Origin of Species</i> in 1859.<br /><br />In this popular work Huxley attempts to "disencumber the subject of its difficulties simplify its statements relieve it of technicalities and bring it so distinctly within the horizon of ordinary apprehension that persons of common sense may judge for themselves. … Such is the character of the present volume" preface.</p><p>This volume reflects the wide dissemination of Darwin's ideas in the 1860s.</p><br /> Appleton hardcover
188857931London Harrison and Sons 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's orbituary; I-XXV pp. Entire volume: viii 464 XXXV 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Huxley's famous obituary of Darwin. "While Huxley was composing this and other expositions of technical education in the late 1880s he was also writing an obituary notice on Darwin for the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Though he undertook this piece in 1883 he did not complete it until five years later. In letters to Foster and Hooker in early 1888 Huxley remarked that he was still rereading Origin of Species trying to separate the "substance" of the theory from its "accidents" with the aim of warding off a generation of "hostile comments and would-be improvements.". Even though he had written at least a half-dozen abstracts of the work and was reading it he said "for the nth time" he was "getting along slowly" and finding it "one of the most difficult books to exhaust that ever was written." At this juncture in his life it seemed that Huxley had difficulty concluding what he had always concluded previously about Darwin's theory: that its points of central importance were the facts of variation the Malthusian principle of overpopulation and its consequence universal struggle. As Huxley finally came around to saying once again the obituary article it was immaterial how organisms differed from each other or why." White Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science P. 152Darwin-Online A344. </em> hardcover
1873167597London: Macmillan and Co. 1873. Presented to one of Huxley's close friends at the Royal Society First edition presentation copy inscribed on the half-title: "John Evans esq from his friend T. H. Huxley". Huxley collaborated with Sir John Evans 1823-1908 the eminent archaeologist in the administration of several learned societies in London most notably the Royal Society. In 1873 Huxley was the society's biological secretary and would later serve as its president while Evans who was elected a fellow in 1864 would serve as its treasurer from 1878 to 1898. The two men were personal friends and corresponded on a wide range of subjects. Alongside his profession as a paper manufacturer Evans is credited with pioneering a more scientific approach to British archaeology. Two years after Huxley's Critiques was published Evans wrote a paper which applied Darwinian natural selection to the archaeological study of ancient British coins. The essays and addresses in this collection attest to Huxley's wide range of interests: education "The School Boards: What they can do and what they may do"; geology "On the Formation of Coal"; and Darwinian evolution "Palaeontology and the Doctrine of Evolution Darwin's Critics" among much else. Evans's attractive bookplate depicting a variety of antiquities and bearing the motto "I desire to deserve" is on the front pastedown. Octavo. Leaf of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original red pebbled cloth spine lettered ruled and with publisher's device in gilt covers with concentric panels in blind dark blue coated endpapers. Light bumping and wear to extremities light finger soiling to covers cosmetic split to front inner hinge moderate foxing to endpapers edges and initial leaves: a very good copy. hardcover
189838429New York: D. Appleton & Co. As New. 1898. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - 430 pages. Top fore-edge gilt. -- with a bonus offer-- . D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
189838369New York: D. Appleton & Co. As New. 1898. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE Mild cover wear else flawless. -- with a bonus offer-- . D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1862001928<p>London: Robert Hardwicke 1862. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Small slim 8vo pp157 2 pages of adverts with small b/w illustrations in the text to pages 9 11 15 36 and 40. Hardcover no dust jacket. Binding of green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped designs to boards and spine in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges and tips. Inside starting to crack pages 106/107 but all pages still well bound and secure and in lovely clean and bright condition with no foxing marking or aging. Dubbing himself 'Darwin's bulldog' Huxley is primarily known as a popularizer of Darwin's theory and also for his war with theology and consequently invented what he conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. From 1860 to 1863 Huxley developed his ideas presenting them in lectures to working men students and the general public followed by publication. Also in 1862 a series of talks to working men was printed lecture by lecture as pamphlets later bound up as a little green book; the first copies went on sale in December and prompted Darwin to write in dismay to Huxley stating of his six lectures "They are simply perfect" even though Huxley himself did not intend them to be widely circulated. An excellent copy of this very scarce first clothbound edition. <br /><br /></p> Robert Hardwicke hardcover
18985537London: Macmillan 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First and only edition of Huxley's complete scientific works previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 known as Darwin's bulldog for his passionate defense of the theory of evolution was a brilliant Victorian anatomist and biologist who counted amongst his grand-children the noted scientist Julian Huxley and renowned author Aldous. Super-royal 8vo 10 " x 6 ". xv 606 xi 612 xi 622 xii 689 90. Heavy set of books weighing 11kg 24 pounds. Macmillan hardcover
1880466421880. <p>Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the vertebrata and more particularly of the mammalia. Offprint from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880. 649-662pp. 223 x 156 mm. Original plain wrappers small split at spine minor dust-soiling. Very good.</p> <p> First Edition Offprint Issue. Huxley here lays out the successive stages of mammalian evolution from the simplest to the highest forms and extends this "law" of ancestral evolution to all vertebrates. </p> . unknown
1858411<p><strong>Folio 36.2 x 26.2 cm. x 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves a few text figures. Original quarter linen over limp boards. Printed label with title mounted on front board. = Written by Darwin's Bulldog the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted the Great Barrier Reef and the seas northwards to New Guinea. Huxley's paper On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of Medusae' was published in 1849 by the Royal Society in its Philosophical Transactions. Huxley united the Hydroid and Sertularian polyps with the Medusae to form a class to which he subsequently gave the name of Hydrozoa. The connection he made was that all the members of the class consisted of two cell layers enclosing a central cavity or stomach. This is characteristic of the phylum now called the Cnidaria. He compared this feature to the serous and mucous structures of embryos of higher animals. When at last he got a grant from the Royal Society for the printing of plates Huxley was able to summarise this work in The Oceanic Hydrozoa published by the Ray Society in 1859'. The value of Huxley's work was recognised and on returning to England in 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In the following year at the age of twenty-six he not only received the Royal Society Medal but was also elected to the Council Wikipedia. On the front pastedown an armorial bookplate of the Rashleigh family Menabilly. At least one Rashleigh Jonathan junior 1845-1872 was interested in marine biology. A pencilled annotation on the Ray Society title. Boards and spine a bit worn at edges; text and plates mostly clean. A very good copy housed in a custom dark green slipcase with paper label. An excellent survivor preserved in the Publisher's original state. Nissen ZBI 2065.</strong></p> Ray Society paperback
1870024767London: Macmillan. First Edition. Really nice half leather with gilt raised bands and red title and author slip and violet pebbled cloth. Provenance: Purchased from notable book collector Sydney Ross with his bookplate inside the front cover over a pencil notation. Before Ross the book was owned by the Bodleian Library at Oxford; only indications are a small location sticker inside the front cover and a small "Bodleian Library" stamp on the copyright page over which is a smaller stamp indicating that the book was withdrawn from the Bodleian Library. Small area of scuffing on the leather at one corner on the rear cover some edge wear internals bright and nice Very Good. Scarce. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1870. Macmillan hardcover
1864A58710London: Williams and Norgate 1864. 8 159 wood-engraved frontis 32 text figs. . HB. 8vo orig. dark green cloth blind-stamped decorative border to both boards minor wear some soiling gilt title to spine slightly dulled. text block cracked between two gatherings but still firm. Good. Third thousand. First published 1863. Includes the frontispiece illustrating the progression of skeletons from the lesser apes through to humans. Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from thehigher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. Huxley who earned the nickname 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his outspoken defense of the theory of evolution through natural selection wrote this present work in response to the well-known <i>Hippocampus minor</i> controversy of the 1860s. Huxley challenged the paleontologist Richard Owen who asserted that a human's brain differed qualitatively from those of other mammals. After a series of dissections of primate brains Huxley disproved Owen's claim that only humans possessed a <i>Hippocampus minor</i> a portion of the brain now known as the calcar avis.Garrison & Morton 165. Williams and Norgate hardcover
187052CG1870. O. J. um 1870. Photographie Portrait. Format: 25 x 205 cm. Huxley ein wichtiger Naturwissenschaftler des 19. Jahrhunderts er unterstützte Darwin in der Evolutionstheorie. unknown
18885768London: Harrison & Sons 1888. Hardcover. Very good. Near fine in modern red cloth. Full volume contains the first printing pp. i:xxv of Huxley's long obituary and short biography of Darwin written and published after a five-year delay. Harrison & Sons hardcover
18752618261875. 2 pp. old folds small tape repair. 2 pp. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night." Desmond. Indeed it was Fayrer who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley 1846-50.<br /> <br /> Having returned from the Rattlesnake voyage 1846-50 he became the professor of natural history at the Royal School of Mines and later president of the Royal Society. Though is best known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his strident advocacy of his theory of evolution. He also coined the term "agnostic".<br /> <br /> Fayrer was famous for the treatment of snakebite and at the time of writing was gearing up for membership of the Royal Society. He was proposed for election in March and finally admitted in April 1877. Desmond A; Huxley From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Reading 1997 p.36 unknown
186318558<p><b>1863 1ed Huxley EVOLUTION Man's Place in Nature Darwin March of Progress APES</b></p><p><i>"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once." </i></p><p>– Thomas Huxley</p><p>Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution moral philosophy and scientific ethics. </p><p>Huxley's "<i>Man's Place in Nature</i>" is an important work of evolution theories focusing on:</p><p>· natural history of the man-like Apes</p><p>· relations of Man to the lower animals</p><p>· fossil remains of Man</p><p>This book contains the famous 'March of Progress' illustration – the view of an ape skeleton into a human skeleton.</p><p>Item number: #18558</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>HUXLEY Thomas Henry</p><p><b><i>Evidence as to man's place in nature</i></b></p><p>New York : D. Appleton 1863. First American edition.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 184 8</p><p>o 32 in-text illustrations plus engraved frontispiece</p><p>· Provenance: Bookplate – Phil. Rau</p><p>· Language: English </p><p>· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure</p><p>o Cloth</p><p>· Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in 21cm x 13.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>18558</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> D. Appleton hardcover
187030749<p><strong>1870 Origin of Species EVOLUTION Thomas Huxley Essays Darwin Philosophy Science</strong></p><p><em>"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once." </em></p><p>– Thomas Huxley</p><p>Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution moral philosophy and scientific ethics. </p><p>This rare 1870 printing of Huxley's reaction to Darwin's '<em>On the Origin of Species</em>' fully supported many of Darwin's evolutionary theories.</p><p>Item number: #30749</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>HUXLEY Thomas Henry</p><p><strong><em>On the origin of species: or The causes of the phenomena of organic nature. A course of six lectures to working men.</em></strong></p><p>New York: D. Appleton and Company 1870. 1st American edition</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->150 6</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->5 in-text figures</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Bookplate – James P. Marsh</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Cloth</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 5.25in 20.5cm x 13cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>30749</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
189357964Macmillan. - 18931895. 1st. Ed. Nine volume set with b/w. illus. 8vo. Bookplates to frontpaste down and ffep. of all vols. Brief notes to rfeps. of two vols. Occasional minor foxing o/w. contents fine. Original burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing set. The volume titles are in order:- Methods and Results; Darwiniana; Science and Education; Science and Hebrew Tradition; Science and Christian Tradition; Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley; Man’s Place in Nature; Discourses: Biological and Geological; Evolution and Ethics. Macmillan. - hardcover
1893044756New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1893. Undated circa 1893-4. Number 90 of 1000 copies printed Westminster Edition Authorized Edition. Nine volume set complete. Attracitive and pristine set in blue bloth lettered and decorated in gilt top edges gilt other edges untrimmed tissue protected frontis in each volume about 8.5 inches tall. Near fine condition books look and feel barely read firm bindings clean pages name stamp at top of each front free endpaper no other names or markings. Huxley was a scientist biologist and anthropologist who strongly supported Darwin's theories. The books contain essays on Darwin and related topics. Volume titles: Darwiniana Man's Place in Nature Methods and Results Evolution and Ethics Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley Discourses Biological and Geological Science and Education Science and Hebrew Tradition Science and Christian Tradition. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton & Co. Hardcover
1864466441864. <p>Huxley Thomas 1825-95. On the angwántibo Arctocebus calabarensis gray of old Calabar. Offprint from Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 8vo. 23pp. 207 x 137 mm. Disbound. Small tear in first leaf light browning otherwise very good.</p> <p> First Separate Edition; very scarce. On the anatomy of the Calabar potto an African primate of the family Lorisidae of which the bushbaby is also a member. </p> . unknown
1898000013858New York: D. Appleton and Company 1898. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 9 vol. 8vo. For full pagination please inquire. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards with gilt rules on lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Volumes four and seven with a few full-page illustrations. This set was issued in nine volumes all nine volumes are present. An attractive set of the major works of Thomas H. Huxley an accomplished biologist and prolific author. Huxley is best remembered for being an early proponent of agnosticism and for being an outspoken defender of Darwin's theory of evolution. A few of the spines with light rubbing. Volumes one four five and seven with two to three address labels on their free front endpapers. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
187713993Halle 1877. im Mittelalter bei den Occidentalen. Beigeb.: Helmholtz H.; Populäre wissensch. Vorträge I. II. III.Heft; Huxley Th.H.; Reden und Aufsätze Günther S.; Studien zur Geschichte der mathematischen und physikalischen Geographie I.Heft Gering stockfl.Einbd.läd. 8°. Pbd. d. Zt. Varia unknown
