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186813360London: John Murray 1868. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. With several text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth a few small bumps minor wear to boards; approximately 2 inches of the top of the fly-leaf of both volumes cut out. Generally a very nice set uncut with the presentation bookplate of the University of Southern California Messrs. Milton and Stanley Slotkin in each volume ownership signature on the title to Volume II. First edition first issue of Darwin's great contribution to the descent theory and the foundation on which all later racial-biological research was based. This work expands in detail material that Darwin had intended to include in his Origin. The most novel element in the work is Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis by which he attempts to explain hereditary resemblance inheritance of acquired characteristics atavism and regeneration. Although proven invalid this theory was nevertheless of prime importance in the history of genetics. "Darwin carried out numerous investigations with pigeons and various plants. He recognized continuous and discontinuous variation; he concluded that crossing tends to keep populations uniform" G&M. John Murray unknown
1940133214London: Collins 1940s. First and early editions of these works on Britain. Octavo original cloth approximately 125 volumes color and monochrome illustrations. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Collins hardcover
elala2638London: John Murray 1872. Sixth Edition Twelfth Thousand. Generally regarded as the last edition the sixth was extensively revised and included a new chapter VII inserted to refute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St. George Mivart and a glossary compiled by W.S.Dallas. The title was changed to The Origin of Species and the word evolution in this text for the first time. Prepared under the advice of Lyell and Hooker this was Darwins greatest work and one of the most important books ever published The evidence for the existence of evolution and that it resulted from the survival of the fittest by natural selection is marshaled and set out as never before. Garrison considered this the most wonderful piece of synthesis in the history of science. Darwins influence on biology was fundamental its full implications being by no means yet exhausted. Garrison & Morton Freeman 392. cfGarrison & Morton 220. cfGrolier/Horblit 23b. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 344b. 8vo. pp. xxi 458. folding diagram. original cloth spine ends frayed inner hinges partly cracked London: John Murray, 1872 hardcover
1868013502London: John Murray 1868. Complete in 2 volumes. First edition first issue. Collation viii 411pp 32pp ads dated April 1867 viii 486pp 2pp ads February 1868 with 1-line publisher's imprint on cloth at base of spines 5 lines of errata in vol. I and 7 in vol. II and 43 in-text wood engravings. Bound in original publishers green cloth blind stamped tooling gilt lettering. At some time both volumes has been repaired. Cloth lightly rubbed some minor abrasion wear minor light rippling lightly bumped. Both bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally some light dust marking. Pages in good clean condition. Generally a very nice set. F. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
1862feb02637<p>1862. First German Edition of Fertilisation of Orchids by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />Über die Einrichtungen zur Befruchtung Britischer und ausländischer Orhideen durch Insekten</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> E. Sclnveizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung hardcover
1886feb02656<p>1886. First German Edition of Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy and of other parts of Lochaber in Scotland.<br /><br />Über den geringen Betrag der alluvialen Thätigkeit seit der Bildung der Simse im Roy-Thal Found on pp. 251-261</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> E. Günther hardcover
1871feb02713<p>1871. First Russian Edition of The descent of man and selection in relation to sex in 2 Volumes by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />ПроиÑхождение человека</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> St. Petersburg hardcover
1875feb02709<p>1875. First Polish Edition of The descent of man and selection in relation to sex in 2 Volumes by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />Dobór płciowy</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Lwów hardcover
1873feb0148<p>1873. First Polish Edition of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin.</p><p>Wyraz uczuć u człowieka i zwierząt</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Józefa Sikorskiego hardcover
1873feb02689<p>1873. First Dutch Edition of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals y Charles Darwin.<br /><br />Het uitdrukken der gemoedsaandoeningen bij den mensch en de dieren</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Joh. Ykema hardcover
1884feb0124<p>1884: Polish Edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life</p><p>O powstawaniu gatunków drogą doboru naturalnego czyli o utrzymywaniu się doskonalszych ras w walce o byt</p> Ikon Teralitera hardcover
1912feb02738<p>1912. First Japanese Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />ビーグルå·èˆªæµ·è¨˜ åŒæ–‡é¤¨</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Dobun-kan hardcover
1870feb02729<p>1870. First Danish Edition of The Voyage of the Beagle and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin.<br /><br /></p><p>Rejseiagttagelser</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Copenhagen hardcover
1882feb02686<p>1882. First German Edition of Vegetable Mould and Worms by Charles Darwin.<br /><br />Die Bildung der Ackererde durch die Thätigkeit der Würmer</p><p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagshandlung hardcover
1828S13985London:: Printed for the Author; published by Baldwin and Cradock 1828-31. 1828. Four volumes. 8vo. 9.5 inches tall. Vol. I: 2 iv 186 2 pp. 9 plates. Vol. II: ii 200 pp. 6 plates. Vol. III: ii 374 6 pp. 4 plates. Vol. IV: ii 413 1 pp. 4 plates. Original marbled boards with modern half-calf raised bands gilt-stamped spines black leather spine labels marbled endsheets. Small ownership labels of the Lowther Collection. Nice set. CONTAINING THE FIRST PUBLICATIONS OF CHARLES DARWIN. The full edition was issued in 12 volumes. "While at the University of Cambridge the student Charles Darwin became an enthusiastic insect collector. He sent Stephens records of the rarer insects he had captured and was delighted when Illustrations of British entomology gave him credit for capturing insects described in 33 entries quoting his words in all but two of the cases. Darwin recalled in his autobiography "No poet ever felt more delight at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing in Stephen's Illustrations of British Insects the magic words 'captured by C. Darwin Esq.'" though the closest wording as published actually appeared slightly differently as "captured by the Rev. F. W. Hope and C. Darwin Esq. in North Wales" and "Taken in North Wales by C. Darwin Esq." – Wikip. / The exquisite plates are colored by hand after drawings by Charles M. Curtis 1795-1839 and John Obadiah Westwood 1905-1893 who was among the first entomologists with an academic position at Oxford University. Although he worked on insect classification and diversity for more than sixty years from the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species he never accepted the ideas on evolution. / James Francis Stephens was an English entomologist and naturalist. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society on 17 February 1815 and of the Zoological Society of London in 1826. From 1815 to 1825 he took a great interest in ornithology and contributed to the work of George Shaw 1751-1813. He was granted leave from office to assist William Elford Leach in 1818 to arrange the insect collection at the British Museum and eventually described as many as 2800 British insect species. In 1833 he was founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. Stephens made a large insect collection that included many specimens. After his death the insect collection was purchased by the British Museum. PROVENANCE: Bruce Lowther 1926-1999 Collection c/o J.T. Barnes 503 Royal Trust Building Victoria B.C. Lowther was a journalist broadcaster author and historian with a particular interest in British Columbia labor history. From 1954-76 he worked as a reporter and columnist for the Victoria Daily Colonist. His collection of books was donated to the Saanich Archives Saanich British Columbia. Printed for the Author; published by Baldwin and Cradock, 1828-31. hardcover
18692002020London: John Murray 1869. 5th. very good. Fifth edition tenth thousand as stated on title page and copyright page. Book very good repair at front and rear gutters. Page 29/30 missing. Comes with custom-made slipcase. John Murray unknown
184454590Brunswick F. Vieweg und Sohn 1844. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one contemporary half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front free end-paper. Light brownspotting throughout especially to first and last leaves. XVI 319 VIII 301 3 pp. 1 folded map. <br/><br/><em>Rare first German translation of Darwin's Journal of researches now known as Voyage of the Beagle constituting the very first translation of any of Darwin's works into any language. As Darwin later recalled in his autobiography 'The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career'. "On its first appearance in its own right also in 1839 it was called Journal of researches into the geology and natural history etc. The second edition of 1845 transposes 'geology' and 'natural history' to read Journal of researches into the natural history and geology etc. and the spine title is Naturalist's voyage. The final definitive text of 1860 has the same wording on the title page but the spine readsNaturalist's voyage round the world and the fourteenth thousand of 1879 places A naturalist's voyage on the title page. The voyage of the Beagle first appears as a title in the Harmsworth Library edition of 1905. It is a bad title: she was only a floating home for Darwin on which in spite of good companionship he was cramped and miserably sea-sick; whilst the book is almost entirely about his expeditions on land." FreemanFreeman 176 </em> unknown
1864000780New York: Appleton 1864 "A new edition revised and augmented by the author" on title page three quotes on page facing title page. Internally a fresh clean copy with two small fox spots on each of the first few leaves and gone by page ix mostly unread. Respined with new spine covering retaining the original title. i -xi 4-440 2 pp ads. Appleton hardcover
192268590London: Mills & Boon 1922. First edition of this collection of Darwin's golf columns from The London Times. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Bernard Darwin on the front free endpaper "To G.M. from the author with his best regards. Sept. 1922." It was customary for Darwin to sign "from the author" which denoted a personal affiliation with the recipient. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. It has been said that Darwin's writings established the standards for golf reporting against which all others are measured" D&J. Murdoch 178; D&M 13880; D&J D4000. Mills & Boon hardcover
1839008349London: Henry Colburn 1839. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii 2 l. 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv 1 l. 694p addenda 41 plates including 2 frontispieces lacking the four loose folding maps 2 maps in each volume and the "Chart of a part of South America" in volume I. Volume II is lacking the title page but has the half-title page. Browning mostly front portions of both books and plates some old marginal damp stains both books in full tree calf bindings recased with new marbled endpapers using original spine strips lower half of Vol. II spine strip sympathetically replaced. Gilt monogram of General Assembly library on both volumes. Please enquire if you are interested in purchasing volumes separately. Henry Colburn Hardcover
1908191094London: printed for the Linnean Society 1908. Marking fifty years of evolutionary theory First and only edition of this commemorative volume in the strikingly gilt-stamped original cloth. It celebrates the proposal of the theory of evolution described in the words of the Linnean Society's then president Dukinfield Henry Scott as "without doubt the greatest event in the history of our Society since its foundation" p. 1. The grand event marked the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation of Darwin and Wallace's papers on natural selection first read to the society in 1858 by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker. Both papers are here reprinted in full alongside the event programme the list of attendees of the celebratory dinner the general meeting minutes and summaries of the special lantern demonstrations delivered during the evening. Of particular interest is a detailed account of the objects exhibited in the library which comprised natural history specimens illustrating variation across species. The event took place at the Institution of Civil Engineers because the Society's rooms in Burlington House were not large enough to hold the number of scientists in attendance. Attendees also included members of the Darwin family representatives of scientific societies and several foreign ministers. Wallace was the first recipient of the Darwin-Wallace medal; six similarly influential evolutionary biologists - including Hooker Galton and Haeckel - received silver versions. It was also issued in wrappers. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece of Darwin 9 plates 7 of which portraits with corresponding facsimile signatures. Original cream cloth spine lettered in gilt medallic portraits of Darwin and Wallace stamped in gilt on front cover black endpapers top edge gilt. Cloth soiled spine darkened extremities rubbed gilt portraits bright cockling to endpapers foxing to contents and edges: a very good copy. Freeman 353. hardcover
1868AQ29889London: John Murray 1868. In two volumes. viii 411 1 32; viii 486pp 2. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants ticket to REP of Vol. II in original publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked a little chipping to head and foot of spines. Hinges just starting occasional light spotting else a crisp set. A crisp copy of the first edition first issue with 12 errata across both volumes and the publisher's imprint featuring on a single line to the foot of each spine of English naturalist Charles Darwin's 1809-1882 ground-breaking study of variation within plants and animals caused by the modification of species by breeders and horticulturists. The variation of animals and plants under domestication is notable for containing the first appearance of the term 'survival of the fittest' as a substitute for Darwin's more anthropomorphic 'natural selection'; and the first expression of his theory of Pangenesis the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Freeman F877.1. First edition first issue. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
1872189795London: John Murray 1872. Completing Darwin's evolutionary writings First edition first issue "written as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment" Freeman. The plates are among the earliest commercially reproduced photographs in a scientific book. While researching this work Darwin invited the photographer Oscar Rejlander to make comparative studies of laughter and crying obtained photographs of asylum inmates from the asylum director James Crichton-Browne and consulted the French physiologist Guillaume Duchenne on his electrical research on facial muscles. In the first issue "that" is spelled correctly on the first line of page 208. The plates are lettered with Roman numerals; another state is known in Arabic numerals without priority of issue. Freeman suggests that the Arabic numeral plates were printed first but notes that "the two states seem to occur at random in the two issues of the text and Darwin's own copy at Cambridge has the Roman" Freeman. Octavo. With 7 tissue-guarded heliotype plates of which 3 folding woodcut illustrations within text. With 4 pp. publisher's advertisements dated November 1872 at rear. Original dark green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers panelled in blind black coated endpapers. Label partially removed from front pastedown; pencil ownership signature of one "Dudley Crawford". Rubbing to cloth spine darkened ends and corners bumped and worn inner hinges split outer leaves foxed neat tape repair to upper margin of pp. 1-2 chip to lower outer corner of pp. 311-2: in very good condition. Freeman 1141; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600. hardcover
1876153564London: John Murray 1876. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in green cloth. Neat owner name. John Murray hardcover
19133357Hameenlinna: Karisto 1913. First Finnish edition. In later half leather. Very nice conditon. First Finnish edition. In later half leather. XVI 621 1 pp. frontiespiece of Darwin. First Finnish translation of Darwin's Origin of Species. Karisto unknown
