New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. 8vo. x, 592 pp. plus 10 pages of publisher's advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, ONLY ISSUE. With 196 wood-engraved figures in the text, and 10 pages publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth with flower-pattern endpapers. First American edition, sole issue, published soon after the..... More
London: John Murray, 1868. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, 411, [1]; viii, 486 pp., plus 32-pages of publisher's advertisements at the back of the first volume dated April, 1867, a. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With several text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth, a few small bumps, minor wear to boards; approximately..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Three volumes and the separately bound appendix to volume 2. 8vo. xxviii, (4), "597" [= 601]; xiv, (2), 694, (2); viii, 352; xiv, "615" [= 638] pp. With 8 folded engraved charts and maps loose. First edition. First issue. With 44 lithographed plates, most with tissue..... More
London: J. Johnson, 1800. 4to. viii, 612, [12] pp. Errata and directions to binder. With 12 plates (4 folded). FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. faded covers title page has a large cut out (probably where exlibris was) does not affect any letters. Interior generally clean with some..... More
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[England]: 4 October, 1832. Two pages. Letter written in brown ink on a folded sheet, the back leaf containing an address in manuscript with a black wax seal (a dragon with a D). The stamp has been cut from the letter without affecting the text. Letter by Francis Darwin, announcing..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer and Williams and Norgate, June 3, 1881. 8vo. 419-473 pp. FIRST PRINTING. With 3 plates and 17 woodcuts in text. Original blue printed wrappers, some minor chipping, otherwise a very good unopened copy. FIRST PRINTING of this extensive article on the phototropism of plants..... More
Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1905. 8vo. viii, 335 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, faded. Bookplate of Otto Vernon Darbishire, plus his signature dated 1906 and the signature of E. Rimin dated 1939. First edition of Pauly's most important work which represented the sum of his efforts over thirty years in evolutionary..... More
London, Paris, & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1896. 8vo. viii, [9]-224 pp., plus 16 pages of advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Original publisher's cloth from "The Century Science Series", edited by Sir Henry E. Roscoe. First edition of this scientific biography of Darwin from The Century Science Series, edited..... More
London: Andrew Melrose, 1909. 8vo. xii, 245, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photograph. Original cloth. Signature of Lindsay dated April, 1910. First edition. Thomson, a Scotch biologist, brings Darwin, his work and the issues that have arisen based on his theory of evolution, up to date. Thomson provides a foundation..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. 8vo. xiii, [i], 351 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Photos pasted inside. Bookplate of Marshall Laird. First edition. A beautifully written biography from which emerges a tragic-romantic figure of Darwin: "Darwin delivered his generation from the Egypt of an oppressive anthropomorphic theology..... More
Paris: E. Thunot, 1849. 8vo. 15 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding plate. Marbled boards with the original front wrapper bound in bearing the author's presentation inscription. Dr. Herbert M. Evans's bookplate. Presentation copy of the first edition of this work by Daubrée, French geologist and mining engineer, containing an..... More
London: Longman, 1813. 4to. viii, 323, lxiii pp., including appendix and index. FIRST EDITION. With 10 engraved plates, 1 folding, and numerous tables throughout text. Contemporary calf tooled in blind and gilt; a fine copy from the library of the Earl of Ilchester, with his bookplate on the front paste-down..... More
Paris: Flammarion, 1909. 8vo. [iv], 371, 8 pp. (publisher's catalogue). FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, uncut. Needs re-sewing. Ownership signature on the half-title. First edition of the comprehensive overview of evolution. The authors first discuss earlier notions in the development of the theory, citing Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Saint-Hilaire, and others..... More
Paris: P. Didot L’aine, 1801. 8vo. xxxi, [i], 166 pp., including half-title. With the finely engraved frontispiece by Choffard after Monciau. Contemporary calf; a fine wide-margined copy from the library of (Lord)? Minto with his bookplate and the label of Jerry Stannard. A new edition, considerably augmented from the original..... More
A La Haye: P. de Hondt, 1758. 4to. [ii], iv, 73 pp., plus 5-page publisher's catalogue. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN. Title in red and black, woodcut headpieces and initials, and 11 engraved plates. Calf-backed pebbled boards; last 3 leaves skillfully reinforced at fore-edge. From the library..... More
Paris: Allais, Libraire, 1806. 8vo. [ii], vi-xxxii, [ii], 344, [1] pp., including half-title and errata (lacking first half-title). With 197 text tables. Original w. FIRST EDITION. With 197 text tables. Original wrappers, title in ink on spine; a fine uncut copy. First edition of a valuable treatise by Duméril (1774-1860)..... More
Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1812. 8vo. xii, 272 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 60 engraved plates made after drawings by Pretre. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, head of spine worn and the covers a bit faded; interior excellent. First edition of the author's major work on the classification of insects, with the..... More
Paris: From Academie des sciences...Vol. IX, 1846, Sept. 5, 1842. 4to. pp. [333]-432, with 4 coloured plates. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers; some marginal browning. First edition of the ground-breaking monograph on the teeth of the shrew, published in book form two years later. The plates are illustrations of microscopic views of..... More
Charleston: J.R. Schenck, 1821; 1824. Two volumes. 8vo. [ii], [ii]-iv, 14, 606, [vi]; [viii], 743, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Volume I with the dedication leaf to Rev. Henry Muhlenberg. With 12 plates (6 in each volume). Contemporary boards re-backed in modern calf; interior clean with light offsetting on a few..... More
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1846. 4to. xv, 547 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 17 engraved plates (plate 8, Black Oak, Quercus tinctoria, repeated). Original printed wrappers, rebacked, front wrapper with stains from where tape was removed on bottom and edge. A nearly unsophisticated, uncut copy, the interior absolutely exquisite, withdrawn from..... More
New York: John B. Alden, 1889. 8vo. xvi, 704 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Blue publisher's cloth. An excellent copy. First American edition from the original London edition of 1884 which was published in two volumes. This edition has been enlarged with additions and corrections. The focus is on flower lore..... More
Paris: From Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Paris, 1732. 4to. 17-30 pp. (extraction). Blue wrappers with manuscript title on front cover, author's name and date of publication handwritten in upper left corner of front cover. First edition of this interesting article on the chemistry of meat for purposes of..... More
Strasbourg: Amand Konig, 1770. 4to. [vi], xviii, [iii], 252, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary paper-covered boards, rebacked; a fine copy. First edition of this very interesting work on the anatomy of fishes, in Latin and French on opposite pages. Gouan's history basically consists of full..... More
London: Published by the author, [1844-1850]. Folio (545 x 306 mm). 23 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half title, list of subscribers, and 32 magnificent hand-coloured plates by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter. Contemporary morocco with elaborately gilt decorated spine, insignificant repair on spine, all edges gilt, marbled paste-downs; some..... More
Washington: Printed for James C. Dunn, 1835. 8vo. 396, 160 pp., including appendix. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary sheepskin; light penciling, extremities rubbed, otherwise very good. First edition. One of the best and earliest principal sources on Liberia's colonial history. Of particular interest is the chapter devoted to the..... More
