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186149837London: John Murray 1861. Third edition seventh thousand. 8vo. xx 538 pp. Later green half straight grain morocco for Hatchards green cloth sides spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot marbled endpapers with the bookplate of a Laurence Currie to the front pastedown top edge gilt. Folding table. Light rubbing to the extremities an attractive copy. Freeman 381. First published 1859 this edition includes a leaf detailing alterations from the second edition and also the historical sketch for the first time in a Murray edition. The latter had originally appeared in a shortened form in the first German edition and subsequently in the fourth American printing both 1860. London: John Murray unknown
1881163369London: John Murray 1881. A fresh copy of his last book in the original cloth First edition first issue of the author's final book. Published the year before his death it was a remarkable success and sold 6000 copies within a year initially selling faster than the Origin of Species had done. The culmination of ten years of intensive research and close observation on the interaction of earthworms with their physical environment and their influence on great earth movements the work was Darwin's "leitmotif explaining vast changes by minute incremental events: mountain uplift evolving life and now worms transforming the soil" ODNB. The first impression of 2000 copies was apparently split between two equal issues the first without a "thousand" statement as here and the second with "second thousand" on the title; all issues thereafter had such a statement. Octavo. Woodcut and engraved figures in the text. Publisher's advertisement leaf at rear. Original green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind brown coated endpapers. Ownership inscription on first blank. Cloth with couple of bumps and tiny wear to corners but fresh overall superficial splits to sound inner hinges outer leaves foxed contents clean inconsequential paper flaw to lower corner of pp. 1/2. A very good copy indeed. Freeman 1357. hardcover
1880156556London: John Murray 1880. It has always pleased me to exalt plants in the scale of organised beings First edition first issue of Darwin's penultimate book continuing his experiments with climbing plants and prepared with the assistance of his son Francis. The first issue is distinguished by the presence of two lines of errata on p. x which are corrected in the second issue of the same year. The collaborative authorship proclaimed on the title page reflects Darwin's interest in introducing his children into the world of science. Francis Darwin had trained as a doctor but turned from medicine to botany initially working as secretary and assistant to his father. In 1876 he had been for some months at the University of Würzburg learning laboratory methods from Julius Sachs. "The book was an extension of Charles Darwin's work on climbing plants and it showed that the same mechanisms can be observed in plants in general. By extending the idea of irregular circumnutation the Darwins analysed the growth movement of plants in response to factors of the environment such as light gravity and wounds. In addition they demonstrated that the mechanism of curvature in both roots and shoots was the result of differential growth rates. They could also confirm that the effect of the stimuli on the growth movement was indirect and that light and gravity act on some substance in the tip of the root and the shoot which is transmitted to other parts of the plant. Francis Darwin later refined some of the experimental techniques and modified their theoretical conclusions" ODNB. Provenance: with the ownership signature of Ralph W. Lewis dated 1949 on the half-title. Lewis was a professor of botany plant pathology biology and natural science at Michigan State University from 1937 to 1980. He is best known for his arguments in favour of formalizing evolutionary theory and recognizing evolution as a system of theories. Octavo. With 196 woodcuts in text; 32-page publisher's catalogue dated May 1878 at rear. Original green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind brown coated endpapers. Spine ends and corners gently bumped and rubbed small indentation at centre of spine some marks to rear cover professionally recased pp. 272-3 browned from slip of paper once laid in. A very good copy. Freeman 1325. hardcover
1868191093London: John Murray 1868. Darwin's earliest use of "survival of the fittest" First edition first issue of the first of Darwin's works to use the famous evolutionary phrase preceding its appearance in the fifth edition of the Origin of Species by a year. "Survival of the fittest" p. 6 was coined by the philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Variation provides a full statement of the facts on which the theories of Origin were based. This work was intended as the first section of Darwin's projected "big book" on evolution of which the Origin was an abstract. Its purpose was "to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation. Darwin gave numerous instances of the causes of variability including the direct effect of the conditions of life reversion the effects of use and disuse saltation prepotency and correlated growth. Variation also addressed a key criticism of Origin: that it lacked an adequate understanding of inheritance" ODNB. This is the only Darwin title published by Murray to appear in the larger format of demy octavo. This copy is from the first issue published in a run of 1500 and is distinguished by the presence of five errata in Volume I nine errata on seven lines in Volume II and the spine imprint on a single line. 2 vols demy octavo. With 43 woodcuts. Vol. I with 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements dated April 1867 Vol. II with 2 pp. of advertisements dated February 1868. Original green cloth spines lettered and ruled in gilt covers panelled in blind dark green coated endpapers binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to rear pastedown of vol. I. Armorial bookplates of one John F. Sinclair. Cockling and faint marks to cloth spine ends and corners bumped and a little worn water soiling to lower inner corner of second volume rear cover and endpapers front inner hinge split but holding firm occasional short closed tears to outer margins: a very good copy. Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597. hardcover
183972639Volume I xxviii 4 597 pp errata. Volume II xiv 2 694 pp. Appendix Volumeviii 352 pp. 54 black and white plates which include 7 loose folding maps. The loose maps are all facsimiles and not originals. Published by Henry Colburn hardcover
187154640E-172: John Murray. Very Good. 1871. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. John Murray. 1871. Two Volumes. Viii 423 pgs and viii 475 pgs. First Edition/Later Issue lacking transmitted on pg. 297 of the 1st volume and the errata slip at the beginning of volume 2; lacking the catalog at the end of volume 2. Bound in full blue leather with gilt rule gilt titles raised bands and red and black leather spine label present to the spine. Boards have some light wear present. Marbled endpapers. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The word "evolution" appears here for the first time in any of Darwin s works on page 2 of the first volume that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of the Origin of species in the following year Freeman p 129. In Origin Darwin had avoided discussing the place occupied by Homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection stating only that light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Twelve years later he made good his promise with The descent of man in which he compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes. In discussing man's ancestry Darwin did not claim that man was directly descended from apes as we know them today but stated simply that the extinct ancestors of Homo sapiens would have to be classified among the primates; however this statement as misinterpreted by the popular press caused a furore second only to that raised by the Origin Norman. E-172; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . John Murray hardcover
189097629NY:: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good. 1890s. Hardcover. An incomplete set: 14 of 15 volumes Volume I of The Origin of Species is missing. Animals and Plants Under Domestication two volumes Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Insectivorous Plants The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin two volumes edited by his son Francis Darwin The Power of Movement in Plants The Origin of Species Volume II only The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle Round the World. Author's Edition Limited: this set is number 223 of 1000. Octavos half bound in burgundy leather marbled boards raised bands along the spines gilt lettering and design on the spines top edges gilt marbled endpapers illustrations photographs and fold-out maps. Light shelf wear and aging aptly the Insectivorous Plants volume has two small holes at the fore edge of the text block - insect damage one of the volumes has the previous owner's name and address on a front endpage else all volumes are very good. Texts are clean and bindings are sound. . D. Appleton and Company, hardcover
1881140940727London: John Murray 1881. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Darkening to spine cloth and slight tear at head. Foxing to textblock edge preliminary and terminal sheets. Previous owner name in pencil to front paste down. Darwin's final work published shortly before his death in April 1882. John Murray unknown
18686645London: John Murray 1868. First edition. Fine. 2 volumes octavo 23 cm. First issue points: 5 errata on 6 lines in Vol. I and 9 errata on 7 lines in Vol. II. LACKS ADS apparently discarded when bound by Henry Southeran. Bound in full tan polished calf double-ruled in gilt; six-compartment spine tooled in blind and gilt with black title labels. Marbled edges and endleaves. Ticket of Henry Southeran. A very handsome set! <br /><br />Darwin's sequel to the Origin of Species including his first use of the term "survival of the fittest" and his much-admired essay on pigeons. John Murray unknown
1888feb02677<p>1888. First Polish Edition of Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication in 2 Volumes by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />Zmienność zwierząt i roślin w stanie kultury</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Wydawnictwo Przeglądu Tygodniowego hardcover
187660588Moscow izdanie V. P. Plemânnikova 1876. 8vo. 3 parts bound in 2 uniform contemporary full cloth bindings with blind stamped titles to spines. Some soiling to extremities and part of cloth around hinges worn of. Internally with occassional brownspotting. 4 168 2 393 1 VII 2 pp. 4 folded plates. <br/><br/><em>Rare first Russian translation of Darwin’s Insectivorous Plants published only one year after the English original. Freeman F1244OCLC only locates one copy in Poland Huntinton in Pasadena also holds a copy. </em> hardcover
1868000931John Murray 1868. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue published by John Murray in 1868. 2 Volumes first issue printings with 5 point errata in 6 lines to volume i and 9 points in 7 lines to volume ii. A slightly larger format than many of the Murray editions demy octavo measuring approx 22.5x15cm. Volume i viii411132 pp ads dated April 1867. Volume ii viii4862 pp ads dated February 1868. Original smooth green cloth covers are fresh and bright some light bumping to the corners vol i has some minor indentations to the spine and the upper cover is very slightly bowed vol ii has a slight lean or spine slant. Both with bright gilt to the spines top edges a little dusty securely bound black endpapers with bookseller label first and last few pages with some spotting pages otherwise bright and mostly clean an occasional very minor mark volume i has a previous owners gift inscription in ink to the first blank page very good condition. Numerous black and white illustrations. Only 1500 copies were printed for the first issue of this important work by Darwin. Also comes with two newspaper articles of the Pall Mall Gazette dated 10th and 15th Feb 1868 with the header Darwin on Domestication and Variation. These are spotted. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1869GT319London: John Murray 1869. fifth Edition with Additions and Correct . Hardback. Fine. 8vo. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. fifth Edition with Additions and Corrections TenthThousand xxiii 596pp folding diagram p132. Freeman ref: F436. 32pp FINE PUBLISHER'S GREEN CLOTH with embossed 'Oxford frame' borders and gilt tiles to the spine. Small split to lower spine. Original black end-papers cracked but sound and intact. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.Freeman 387 with double gilt rules to the head and foot spine Variant A. LACKING THE HALF-TITLE PAGE <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1871649L2London: John Murray 1871. First edition. Leather. Good. 7" by 5". None. A first edition first issue set of this famous work regarding evolutionary theory in the context of humans by eminent Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin. The 'Descent of Man' was the first of Charles Darwin's works to use the word 'evolution' and this can be found to page 2 of the first volume. It next appeared in Darwin's sixth edition of 'Origin' published in the following year. This work continues on the principles laid out in Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' which served as an abstract of his theory. Here Darwin applies his evolutionary theory to humans and proceeds to detail his theory of sexual selection. He also looks at evolutionary psychology evolutionary ethics race sexes and how evolutionary theory is relevant to society. A harlequin set with volume I in a half morocco binding with cloth covered boards and volume II in library cloth. Both volumes are the first edition first issue with the correct errata to the verso of title page to volume II seventeen errata for volume I and eight for volume II. With the note to a leaf between i and x referring to 'a serious and unfortunate error'. To volume I page 297 starts with 'transmitted' and contains misprints such as 'kaola' to page 27. This first volume is very scarce as only 2500 copies of this issue were printed. Collated both volumes have been rebound without the half-titles and publisher's adverts. Ex-library copies with institutional stamps to the recto and verso of title pages only for the 'National Central Library London'. To the recto of front endpaper to volume II there is also a stamp for 'British Library Boston Spa Yorkshire'. Illustrated with several in-text illustrations. A scarce opportunity to own a copy of the first edition first impression of this important scientific work. A harlequin set. With volume I in a half morocco binding with cloth covered boards and volume II in library cloth. Blind stamp to the board of volume I for London Library St James's Square. Externally volume I is worn with heavy rubbing to the extremities and joints. Volume II is generally smart with two library stickers to the front board. Front joint to volume I is tender with the hinge detached resulting in the lifting of the backstrip. A few small chips to the preliminaries of volume I. With library stamps to the endpapers and title pages of both volumes. Loss to the front pastedown and endpaper of volume I. Internally both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. The odd spots to pages mostly to volume I which has the occasional ink blot to margins. A good candidate for a rebind. Good John Murray hardcover
1880806F23London: John Murray 1880 . Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. The very scarce second thousand of Charles Darwin's illustrated study of plant movement and response to external stimuli. The very scarce second thousand of Charles Darwin's study on phototropism and other types of movement in plants. First published on the 6th November 1880 and quickly selling out its first 1500 copies this second thousand was published within two months of the first.Authored with the assistance of Darwin's son botanist Francis Darwin the work concerns itself with how plants respond to external stimuli examining these processes in individual plants to gain understanding of general principles governing their growth and life. Featuring numerous vignette illustrations throughout.With a single page of publisher's advertisements to the verso of the half title and a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue dated January 1879 to the rear.From the library of prominent English botanist television presenter author and environmental campaigner David Bellamy.Remarked upon by Francis Darwin as a work that was 'widely reviewed and excited much interest among the general public' this is a lovely copy of a very scarce later work from Charles Darwin. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally bright some bumping and with light marks to front board. Front hinge strained a bit but with board holding firm. Internally firmly bound. One spot present from page 586 to 591 with some spotting to final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good John Murray hardcover
1871chd05acLondon: John Murray. G: in good condition. Volume I - Cover lightly scuffed with some light damp staining on lower edge with minimal impact on contents. Aeg. Volume II - Cover lightly rubbed with some wear at spine ends. Browning to eps and to catalogue. Ownership details on prelim page dated 1873. 1871. First Edition first issue. Volume I- Green Morocco gilt with dentelles; Volume II - Green cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". viii 423pp; viii ii 475pp 16pp catalogue. Illustrated. Issue Points: Volume I has 'kaola' misprint on page 27 and 'transmitted' as first word on page 297; Volume II has Errata page on verso of title and a Postscript page after page viii; also 16pp. catalogue at end of volume. Volume I bound by Seton & Mackenzie. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . John Murray hardcover
1862143986London: John Murray 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1862 first edition first issue. Octavo vi 366 32 publisher's advertisements pages with 34 wood-engraved illustrations some full-page one a folding plate additional to the pagination. Ribbon-embossed plum cloth blocked in gilt and blind; covers slightly worn at the corner-tips and unevenly sunned on the spine; old repair to a split at the head of the front joint; contemporary library stamps to a dozen pages but see our footnote; front hinge cracked but firm; a few other minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy. The scarce first issue of Darwin's first major work after 'On the Origin of Species' 1859. Its exploration of the mechanisms of pollination offered a persuasive observable demonstration of his theory of natural selection in operation in particular through the coevolution of insects and the sexual structures of the orchids that they fertilise. <p>Although praised by botanists the book did not sell well and in later issues the sheets from the first printing were offered in a variant binding and with advertisements dated as late as 1871. This example is in the first-issue binding and has advertisements dated December 1861. The total edition likely comprised fewer than 2000 copies. <p>This copy has the contemporary blindstamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby to the front free endpaper and flyleaf and the contemporary library stamps of the Gawler Institute attesting to the early importation of Darwin's works into colonial South Australia. The title page has an early manuscript shelf mark in ink the Gawler Institute red inkstamp with the inserted reference number 1947 and a much later blue inkstamp for the Salisbury North High School Library. That this book has survived at all is cause for celebration. <p>Freeman 800 'variant a.'. John Murray hardcover
1846NF3922The natural history of these islands is eminently curious and well deserves attention. Most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else; there is even a difference between the inhabitants of the different islands; yet all show a marked relationship of America though separated from that continent by a open space of ocean between 500 and 600 miles in width. The archipelago is a little world within itself or rather a satellite attached to America whence it has derived a few stray colonists and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands we feel The more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings and at their confined range. Seeing every height crowned with its crater and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct we are led to believe that within a period geologically recent the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence both in space and time we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact Ð that mystery of mysteries Ð the first appearance of new beings on this earth"------Charles Darwin Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World under the Command of Capt. FitzRoy R.N. Harper & Brothers 1846 first American edition 2 volumes some wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities of both volumes exhibiting some cloth loss some ROHRSCHACH type stains to the original yellow end-papers and paste-downs the first five textual leaves in volume one exhibit an old moisture tidal mark at the base and lower area of the gutters foxing throughout the text block of both volumes volume two shows wear and missing cloth along the outer front hinge else good copies of this most important and pioneering volume. Indeed Darwin's first book. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18605280New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition fourth issue in original year of US publication. Original cloth spine a bit faded to golden tan shelfwear to edges and corners recased with endpapers expertly renewed. Contents clean contemporary owner's signature on front endleaf. With supplement of the author's additions and alterations on pages 426-432. Garrison-Morton 220 1859 London original edition; Freeman 380 this edition. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
18665323DB1866. 4 Auflage 8. Tsd. mit Ergänzungen und Korrekturen. London John Murray 1866. XXI S. 593 S. mit gefalterter Tafel Diagramm 32 S Werkverzeichnis vom Murray Verlag London. Orignal Leinenband. Besitzerstempel auf dem vorderen Vorsatz: "Wm Krahnstover - Baden-Baden" unknown
189153191Berlin Gebrüder Paetel 1891. Large8vo. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In "Deutsche Rundschau" Band 67 1891. Green leather title-label and red leather tome-label to spine Small paper label pasted on to top left corner of front board. Two stamps to first leaf and one stamp to P. 476. Light wear to extremities internally very fine and clean. Pp. 357-390. Entire volume: IV 480 pp. <br/><br/><em>The Exceedingly rare first and only 19th century translation of Darwin's first published work "Letters on Geology" from 1835. The pamphlet was initially published without Darwin's consent and he was "a good deal horrified" when he learned about the publication which explains the posthumous translation. The work contains extracts from ten letters written by Darwin to John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861 during his five-year voyage on the Beagle. Henslow the charismatic and well-connected Regis Professor of Botany at Cambridge was Darwin's close friend and first mentor in natural history and responsible for obtaining for Darwin his position as ship's naturalist aboard the Beagle. Henslow had this pamphlet printed without Darwin's knowledge for distribution amongst the members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society "in consequence of the interest which has been excited by some of the Geological notices which they contain and which were read at a Meeting of the Society on the 16th of November 1835" an act which secured Darwin's reputation with the scientific community even before his return to England in October 1836. "It has always been assumed that it was issued to members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in December 1835 and this is probably so but I have not seen a copy with a dated ownership inscription or accession stamp for that year" Freeman.The original pamphlet was reprinted in facsimile in 1960 again for private circulation in the Cambridge Philosophical Society and for friends of that Society. Only two translations has been made: The present first and a Russian from 1959 Freeman 7.Freeman No. 6. </em> hardcover
186252388Paris Guillaumin et Cie Victor Masson et Fils 1862. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt title to spine. Very light minor brownspotting to a few pages. Previous owner's name to half title. A fine copy. LXIV incl. half-title I-XXIII 24- 712. pp. and 1 folded plate between pp.160 a. 161. Fully complete. <br/><br/><em>The scarce first French edition of Darwin's masterpiece one of the most important books ever printed. The "Origin" started the greatest of all intellectual revolutions in the history of Mankind.There were some difficulties with the first French edition. Mlle Royer who Darwin described as 'one of the cleverest and oddest women in Europe' and wished 'had known more of natural history' added her own footnotes. He was not really happy until the third translation by Éduard Barbier appeared in 1876. Freeman. Freeman No 655 Freeman does not mention the plate which is present here. </em> unknown
1875119518London: John Murray 1875. First edition first issue. "These meticulous studies form a minor contribution to the evolutionary series by the study of the adaptations of such plants to impoverished conditions. The book was published on 2 July 1875 in a standard binding without inserted advertisements. It is stated that 3000 were printed of which 2700 were sold to the trade at once. This cannot be strictly true because both the second and third thousands of the same year stated their thousands on the title pages" Freeman. Octavo. 30 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Original green bead-grain cloth neatly rebacked with the original gilt lettered and decorated spine laid down corners refurbished blind-panelled covers brown coated endpapers. Attractive contemporary armorial bookplate of Alfred Crease Coxhead; only slight rubbing to extremities inner hinges cracked but sound a few leaves at the beginning with brown staining probably from a pressed flower. A particularly bright copy. Freeman 1217. hardcover
187233920London: John Murray 1872. The Highly Important Sixth Edition with additions and corrections thirteenth thousand the last edition which Darwin lived to amend and revise. This copy with pleasing provenance the copy of Anthony Traill Provost of Trinity College Dublin. Folding lithographed diagram by W. West. 8vo publisher's original green cloth gilt lettered on the spine and blocked in blind in a panel design on the covers original brown coated endpapers all edges untrimmed. xxi 458 pp. A very fine handsome bright and unmarked copy very clean and crisp throughout unusually so. A VERY FINE BRIGHT AND PLEASING COPY OF THE RARE SIXTH EDITION OF 1872 THE GREATEST BIOLOGICAL WORK EVER WRITTEN. IT IS CONSIDERED RARE AND WAS ISSUED IN A QUANTITY NOT EXCEEDING 2000 COPIES. This edition includes an expanded version of "An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species" as well as a table of corrections. The Sixth Edition of 1872 consisted of 3000 copies including three states of the title page reading "Eleventh" "Twelfth" and "Thirteenth" Thousand The Sixth Edition contained a new chapter VII written to address and to refute the views certain other scientists. A glossary appears for the first time and additionally it is in this sixth edition that Darwin used for the first time the word "evolution". The word was inserted three times into the text twice on pages 201 and three times on page 424.<br> 'This edition was extensively revised by Darwin and the new chapter VII was inserted to confute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist S. George Mivart. The title changes to THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and a glossary appears. It is in this edition that the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time. It had been used in the first edition of THE DESCENT OF MAN in the previous year but not before in this work. 'Evolved' had bee the last word of the text in all previous editions but 'evolution' had been omitted perhaps to avoid confusion with the use of the word by Herbert Spencer or with its more particular embryological meaning. The word had however been used in its transformist sense by Lyell as early as 1832 Principles of Geology Vol. II p. 11. On the verso of the title leaf of the 1872 issues there are advertisements for nine of Darwin's works whereas the 1873 reprint has ten. It must have been in press before November 1872 when EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS came out otherwise the new book would have been added. See Freeman<br> Darwin's Revolutionary Masterwork in which he not only "drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken." PMM Together with Copernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS and Newton's PRINCIPIA it is deemed one of the three greatest and most important scientific works ever penned.<br> "The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" and "The most important biological work ever written" Horblit Freeman. Darwin's elaboration of the theory of natural selection laid the groundwork for the controversy over the evolution of man and with only slight modification by such scientists as Stephen Jay Gould Darwin's ideas remain the umbra under which most current biological research is conducted.<br> Darwin had intended the book to be an abstract of his 'big book' on transmutation of which only the first part Variation Under Domestication 1868 was published in his lifetime.<br> This copy was owned by Anthony Traill whose neat signature is found at the head of the half-title page. Traill was actively involved in politics during the 1870's and 1880's. He was an Ulster Unionist and in 1884 was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim. He was also chairman of the world's first electric tramway Portrush founded with his brother William. He was appointed Provost of Trinity College Dublin in 1904. During his time in the office he carried out many internal reforms. Traill refused to change the University's constitutional position at any time in his Provostship despite pressure. He remained the Provost until he died at the Provost's House in 1914.<br> Anthony Traill. 1838-1914 Provost of Trinity College Dublin. LLD LLB MB MCh MD. Honorary LLD degrees from Glasgow Aberdeen and St. Andrews Dictionary of Irish Biography John Murray hardcover
1862feb02661<p>1862. First French Edition - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin<br />De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Guillaumin und Masson hardcover
