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185757211London and Edinburgh: John Murray; W. & A. K. Johnston 1857. A well-executed beautifully engraved map. Hand-colored. 16 x 13 inches 25 x 22 inches in mat and frame. Faint vertical center fold line else fine. Wheat 934. Not in Moffat. From the rare Atlas of the United States. 1857 by Rogers and Johnston. This is the only commercial atlas map of its time to show the Utah Territory on a single map and it is in its own right one of the rarest maps of the territory. In addition to county boundaries and information from Fremont's report the map provides a good deal of detail on springs Indians topographical features forts early roads and more. Portions of Nevada Colorado Arizona and New Mexico are included.<br /> <br /> The first separately printed map of Utah. This map was published at the time of the Utah War 1857-58 and depicts Brigham Young's original view of the large Deseret Territory. Fillmore City is shown as the capitol.<br /> <br /> The map includes a note from Fremont's report which states "The Great Basin is elevated above the sea between 4000 and 5000 ft. it is surrounded by lofty mountains and is believed to be filled with rivers and lakes which have no communication with the sea deserts and oases which have never been explored and savage tribes which no traveller has seen or described. John Murray; W. & A. K. Johnston unknown
189613252New York NY: D. Appleton 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Near fine set. 15 volumes - complete Authorized Edition 1896. Uncommon in the original red morrocco binding marbled boards plain endpapers. No former owner marks. Gilt spine titles top edge gilt. Illustrated with line-drawings plates and maps. This first authorized selected edition of Darwin's works brings together the most important and influential scientific contributions in what were then the latest editions. Set may be subject to additional shipping charges. Volumes include: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Third Edition with plates & 1 folding map;Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Third Edition with maps and illustrations some in colour and many folding in rear; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N.; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication in Two Volumes Illustrated; Insectivorous Plants Illustrated; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species Illustrated; The Power of Movement in Plants Illustrated; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservaton of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life in two Volumes with Additions and Corrections from Sixth and Last English Edition; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Second Edition Revised and Augmented Illustrated; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals with Photographic and other Illustrations; The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits Illustrated; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Including and Autobiographical Chapter in Two Volumes Edited by his son Francis Darwin. D. Appleton hardcover
1862022337London: John Murray. Original maroon cloth with a gilt orchid on the front cover. First Edition. This volume followed Darwins On the Origin of Species and further supported his theory of natural selection. Woodcuts and the woodcut folding plate. Repair to spine some letters missing. Internals nice. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1862. John Murray hardcover
187160107London and New York Macmillan and Co. 1871. Royal8vo. In publisher's original red embossed cloth. In "Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science" Vol. 3 November 1870 - April 1871. Stamp to title-page and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Binding with considerable wear; spine partly disintegrated and front board bended vertically but bookblock firmly attached. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's paper: Pp. 502-503. Entire volume: XII 520 pp. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Darwin’s defense of his Pangenesis-theory. The Pangenesis theory was hypothetical mechanism for heredity in which he proposed that each part of the body continually emitted its own type of small organic particles called gemmules that aggregated in the gonads contributing heritable information to the gametes. He presented this 'provisional hypothesis' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication intending it to fill what he perceived as a major gap in evolutionary theory at the time. Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton spent much time conducting wide-ranging inquiries into heredity which led him to refute Charles Darwin's hypothetical theory of pangenesis. In consultation with Darwin he set out to see if gemmules were transported in the blood. Galton was troubled because he began the work in good faith intending to prove Darwin right and having praised pangenesis in Hereditary Genius in 1869. Cautiously he criticized his cousin's theory although qualifying his remarks by saying that Darwin's gemmules which he called "pangenes" might be temporary inhabitants of the blood that his experiments had failed to pick up. In the present paper Darwin challenged the validity of Galton's experiment giving his reasons in an article published in Nature where he wrote. “Now in the chapter on Pangenesis in my Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication I have not said one word about the blood or about any fluid proper to any circulating system. It is indeed obvious that the presence of gemmules in the blood can form no necessary part of my hypothesis; for I refer in illustration of it to the lowest animals such as the Protozoa which do not possess blood or any vessels; and I refer to plants in which the fluid when present in the vessels cannot be considered as true blood." He goes on to admit: "Nevertheless when I first heard of Mr. Galton's experiments I did not sufficiently reflect on the subject and saw not the difficulty of believing in the presence of gemmules in the blood.†From the present paper The hypothesis was finally refuted in the 1900ies after Gregor Mendel's theory of the particulate nature of inheritance was accepted. The Pangenesis-theory however may be considered an eclectic mix of DNA RNA proteins and prions and can be regarded as being one of the earliest steps toward the modern mechanism for heredity namely DNA and RNA. Freeman 1751 </em> hardcover
188753495Warszawa 1887. 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine and four raised bands. Spine with wear and top right corner 3 x 5 cm of title-page lacking not affecting text. Internally fine and clean. 4 II 412 XVIII pp. <br/><br/><em>Extremely rare first Polish translation of Darwin’s Journal of Researches: "His first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to ‘On the origin of Species’ as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed."Freeman p. 31.Freeman 223 </em> hardcover
1860191556London: John Murray 1860. In the distinctive original cloth The definitive version of Darwin's first published and most widely read book. This botanical and zoological travelogue outlines much of the fieldwork which led to the Origin of Species. The text is the same as the first Murray edition 1845 but includes new preliminaries and a postscript and is the first in the distinctive green Murray cloth. The Journal now popularly known under its later title The Voyage of the Beagle first appeared as the third volume of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle published in May 1839. "The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science" DSB. Darwin himself would state that "the voyage of the 'Beagle' has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career. I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history and thus my powers of observation were improved" Life and Letters I p. 61. Octavo. Diagrams within text. With 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green wave-grain cloth spine lettered ruled and decorated in gilt covers framed and decoratively stamped in blind brown coated endpapers binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown. With early 20th-century bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. Gilt and cloth bright extremities bumped adhesive remnant on endpapers cords occasionally visible. A very well-preserved copy. Freeman 20. Francis Darwin ed. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin 1887. hardcover
1876170104London: John Murray 1876. The more technical complement to the Fertilisation of Orchids First edition. Darwin's research on fertilization in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution and natural selection. To demonstrate that genetic variation gave organisms an advantage in the struggle for survival he created weaker plants than those that had been cross-fertilized. Despite its technical nature the book proved popular; published on 10 November all 1500 copies had sold by the end of the year. Octavo. With 3-line errata slip facing p. viii. Diagram and 109 letterpress tables in text. Original green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind brown coated endpapers. Expertly recased and restored at spine ends and corners with a little remaining wear to latter cloth notably bright and clean light foxing to endleaves pencil annotation to p. 341 demonstrating close reading of text 15 mm closed tear to outer margin of leaf 2G7: a very good copy. Freeman 1249. hardcover
1876182511London: John Murray 1876. The technical complement to the Fertilisation of Orchids First edition. Darwin's research on fertilization in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution and natural selection. To demonstrate that genetic variation gave organisms an advantage in the struggle for survival he created stronger plants in those that had been cross-fertilized as opposed to self-fertilized. Despite its technical nature the book proved popular; published on 10 November all 1500 copies had sold by the end of the year. Octavo. With 3-line errata slip facing p. viii. Diagram and tables within text. Original green cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt covers panelled in blind brown coated endpapers. Bookplate of Henry Wade Deacon 1852-1932 son of the chemist and industrialist Henry Deacon and with his ownership signature dated 1877 on title page. Cloth bright and clean spine ends and corners bumped and a little worn foxing to endleaves: a near-fine copy. Freeman 1249. hardcover
1875191591London: John Murray 1875. The last lifetime edition Sixth edition fifth issue. The sixth edition was the first to feature the word "evolution" - a term first used by Darwin in The Descent of Man 1871 - and was the last published in Darwin's lifetime. It also featured a chapter inserted to refute the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart and a glossary by the entomologist William Sweetland Dallas. Darwin continually made revisions to the Origin of Species. The sixth edition was first published in February 1872 and "was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type. giving the general impression of a cheap edition which at 7s. 6d. it was" Freeman. The first issue read "eleventh thousand" on the title page noting the total issue of copies from the first edition of 1859 onwards. Octavo. Folding diagram facing page 91. Original green bead-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt decorative frames blocked in blind to covers brown coated endpapers binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son to rear pastedown. Book label of Thomas Olver Harding 1850-1896 graduated from Trinity College Cambridge as senior wrangler in 1873. Spine a little toned ends and corners bumped and worn inner hinges cracked but firm rear free endpaper sometime tipped in occasional light spotting to contents. A very good copy. Freeman 398. hardcover
1883104581London: John Murray 1883. Ealry printing of Darwin's final work published shortly before his death. Octavo original cloth illustrated. In near fine condition Bookplate to the pastedown. A sharp example of this work by the leading mind in evolutionary biology. One of the most important figures in human history English naturalist geologist and biologist Charles Darwin became internationally renowned for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However many favored competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences explaining the diversity of life. Published in 1883 The Formation Of Vegetable Mould Through The Action of Worms covers in depth the important role of the earthworm on the constantly changing topsoil of the earth. John Murray hardcover
1868CDAR012London: John Murray 1868 Two volumes. First edition first issue. One of 1500 copies. Bound in three-quarter contemporary brown calf over red marbled boards spines lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled marbled endpapers. A very good set with some wear and rubbing along edges and spines former owner bookplate to front pastedowns some foxing to the first few leaves otherwise clean. Freeman 878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: John Murray hardcover
1860136919London: John Murray 1860. Hardcover. very good. tenth thousand. xv519pp. 32pp. catalog dated January 1863pp. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Blind stamped decoration to boards. Brown endpapers with bookbinders sticker Edmonds & Remnant on rear pastedown. Slight soiling to endpapers with subtle previous owners name to ffep. Cloth in good state. Boards show light bumping to corners and bow inwards slightly. 13 engravings in text. Slight foxing to preliminaries though generally text block is clean bright and tight. A very nice copy. very good Freeman 20. Final definitive text with new preliminaries and a postscript on p. VII. First printing to be bound in the same style as the three editions of 'The Origin of the Species'. "The page height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance". 1860 John Murray hardcover
186113209NY: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good. 1861. Third Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing at the spine ends. The contents are "fine" or better. Looks as if it's never been read. Gilt title is faded. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 440 pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
186329135Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerie 1863. Boards. Very Good. VIII 551 1 blank pages. Plus original albumen photograph of Darwin mounted on thin board inserted before the half title with original tissue guard still present. 8vo. 1/4 leather gilt over marbled boards. Light overall wear to the binding. Bookseller ticket LW Schmidt New York German Bookseller on front pastedown. Lightly browned pages clean internally. A nice copy. Boards. The first German translation of Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was published in 1860 by the same publisher. This edition is notable for the inclusion of an albumen frontispiece of Darwin a very early portrait. Van Wyhe's Complete Photographs of Darwin identifies this portrait as a sitting by Maull & Polyblank from 1857. This image is identified as a variant of that image "1.1. Albumen photograph 15.3x11.5cm uncropped mounted on thick paper. Below image "Phothogr. v. Buchner / Charles Darwin. / E. Schweitzerbart'sche Verlagshandlung in Stuttgart." Frontispiece to Origin 2d ed. in German 1863 F673." If not the first it was certainly among the first albumen images of Darwin to be published in a book. A nice addition to any Darwin collection.<br /> <br /> The albumen print is by Carl Johann Sigmund Buchner.<br /> <br /> Literature:<br /> Freeman Bibliographical Handlist 2nd edition #673<br /> Van Wyhe's Complete Photographs of Darwin. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerie unknown
187782941Paris: C. Reinwald & Cie 1877. Fine. C. Reinwald & Cie Paris 1877 14.50 x 23.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier. Biographical introduction and supplementary notes by Charles Martins. Publisher's full green percale binding smooth spine head caps lightly rubbed blind fillet frame on covers grey paper endpapers and pastedowns. Some minor foxing of no consequence. Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text. Very rare and handsome copy. C. Reinwald & Cie unknown
18627863CB1862. Zweite verbesserte und sehr vermehrte Auflage. Stuttgart Schweizerbart 18621863. 8°. VIII 551 S. Mit einem fotografischen Portrait und einer Tafel. Halblederband der Zeit. Freeman 673. Zweite deutsche Ausgabe. Nur dieser Ausgabe hinzugefügt die Porträt-Fotografie von Carl Johann Sigmund Bucher. Das Papier durchgehend gebräunt und stockfleckig. Der Einband berieben. unknown
1868GT091London: John Murray 1868. 1st editon . Hardback. Fine. 8vo. viii 411; viii 486pp 43 text figures in volume one. Original fine half-calf brown polished bindings with marbled boards. Finely finished gilt dec. compartments and decoration. Red and green gilt lettered labels. No adverts bound-in. Some scattered foxing to the end-papers. Two volume first edition set both dated 1868 with a first issue Volume One and second issue Volume Two. Freeman F877.1 and F878.2 The first volume having the six line errata and volume two no errata. The first issue of 1500 sold out in a week in Jan 1869 and a further 1250 with corrections stated in the first issue errata lists corrected were issued. The different issues have identical title pages. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1870018309London: John Murray 1870. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. The Descent of Man 2 volumes 1st edition 2nd issue London: John Murray 1871 half-titles 16 pp. publisher's advertisements dated January 1871 at rear of each volume wood-engraved illustrations to text spotting to preliminaries and advertisements of both volumesend papers spotted ink ownership signature dated 1950 to upper margin of both half-titlesspine ends rubbed dark blue-black endpapers original green cloth gilt 8vo. Freeman 938. 2500 copies of the first issue were published in February 1871 and 2000 of the second issue published in March. The word 'evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works appearing on page 2 of volume one of the first edition. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1876140638London: John Murray 1876. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st Edition. viii482pp. Octavo. Original green blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on spine. Top edge untrimmed. Coated brown endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Errata slip. Tables in text. A touch of very light wear otherwise a very attractive bright copy. Freeman 1249. A survey of the nature of the mechanisms favouring cross fertilisation and the advantages to be gained by it. 1876 John Murray hardcover
1868H-143<p><strong>1st issue with 5-line errata in volume I and 7-line errata in volume II</strong></p><p>2 volumes Octavo <strong>1st edition</strong> 1st issue London: John Murray <strong>1868. </strong>This remarkable work by Darwin contains the <strong>first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest"</strong> originally coined by Herbert Spencer in <em>Principles of Biology</em> 1864.<br /><br />Wood-engraved illustrations advertisement leaf at end of volume II bound without the 32 pp. advertisements at end of volume I.</p><p>Contemporary tan half calf spines with green and brown labels and <strong>splendid gilt decoration</strong> a superb clean copy.</p> John Murray hardcover
18776668London: John Murray 1877. First edition. Very Good. Octavo 20 cm; viii 352 32 ads pages. Ads dated March 1877. Original green cloth titled in gilt on spine. Foxing to endleaves and to fore edge else clean and unblemished. <br /><br />In his eye-opening re-appraisal of Darwin's botanical books Oliver Sachs wrote that Darwin's botanical studies were "engines of war great missles of evidence lobbed at the skeptics of his theory of natural seledtion" The River of Consciousness. Sachs observes that the botanical studies are "even more overwhelming" than the author's magnum opus The Origin of Species in its presentation of natural seledtion as the basic fact of evolution. Sachs singles out this work The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species as particularly significant in that it explores the theme of co-evolution between two or more interdependent species such as elongated flowers developing together with insects capable of pollinating them with a long proboscus. John Murray hardcover
189723584New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1897-1898 1897. Book. Good . Half Leather. Octavo. 15 Volumes Authorized Edition. Half maroon leather and marbled boards gilt spine titles top edge gilt illustrated with many line-drawings plates and maps some unopened. Volumes include: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. 1897 Third Edition plates & 1 folding map; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. 1897 Third Edition with maps and illustrations some in colour and many folding; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. 1897; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. In Two Volumes. 1897 illustrated; Insectivorous Plants. 1897 illustrated; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. 1897 illustrated; The Power of Movement in Plants. 1897 illustrated; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservaton of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. In Two Volumes. With Additions and Corrections from Sixth and Last English Edition. 1898; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. 1898 Second Edition Revised and Augmented illustrated; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 1898 with Photographic and other illustrations; The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits. 1898 illustrated; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including and Autobiographical Chapter. In Two Volumes. Edited by his son Francis Darwin. 1898 illustrated. Very lightly scuffed at the spine ends. A clean and tight set. D. Appleton & Co., 1897-1898 Hardcover
