London: John Murray, 1863. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, [ii], 351; vi, 423 pp. FIRST EDITION. Separate frontispieces, 7 full-page illustrations plus numerous text illustrations and 1 folding map. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards; a very nice copy, though without the publisher's advertisements often found in Volume I. First edition of... More about The naturalist on the River Amazon
Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich, 1805. 8vo. xvi, 549 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, engraved title depicting a bust of Democritus and 8 engraved plates; Original boards, an excellent copy with the large bookplate of H.A. and a contemporary signature on title. First edition of this monumental work in the history... More about Handbuch der vergleichenden anatomie
Leipzig: Théodore Thomas, 1869. 8vo. xvi, 281, [2] pp. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. Printer wrappers, uncut, foxing on preliminaries and browning throughout. First French translation by Auguste Jacquot, originally printed in German the prior year. "Buchner justifiably conceived the works of Darwin, for the dissemination of which he is especially to... More about Conférences sur la théorie darwinienne de la transmutation des espèces et de l'apparition du...
Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1824. 2 vols., 8vo. [iv], c, 477, [1]; [iv], 526, [2] pp. With half-titles. Quarter morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; sporadic foxing, minor worming and chipping to spine. Contemporary hand-written note tipped in before title of Volume I, pencil annotations on first leaves of each volume and... More about Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme
New York: D. Appleton, 1877. 8vo. [i], viii, 352 pp., 10 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, ONLY ISSUE. With 15 wood-engraved figures in the text. With a list of Darwin's works facing the title-page and 10 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original publisher's red cloth, minor tear... More about The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877. 8vo. [i], viii, 482, 8, [4] pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With a list of Darwin's works facing the title-page and 12 pages of the publisher's advertisements at the end. Original publisher's red cloth. The only issue of the first American edition, published only... More about The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. 8vo. in 12s. xi, 440 pp., plus 2 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FOURTH ISSUE. With 1 folding lithographed plate. Original brown blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, spine a bit sunned, otherwise in absolutely excellent condition. First American edition. This, the fourth issue, with... More about On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in...
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 about The power of movement in plants
London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo. x, 592, 32 pp., including the publisher's advertisements dated May, 1878. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With half-title and list of works by the author on verso; text illustrations. Original green cloth, booklabel removed from spine and slight wear on front cover, interior excellent; a fine... More about The power of movement in plants
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 about The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
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 about Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years...
Cambridge: Jan 14, 1896. 2 p (178 x 225 mm). Folded sheet of letterhead “The Grove”, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge. Lightly browned, small tear to foot of center fold. More about als
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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 about ALS [Letter by Francis Darwin, announcing the death of his mother
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 about Darwinismus und Lamarckismus. Entwurf einer psychophysischen Teleologie
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 about Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection
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 about Darwinism and human life. The South African lectures for 1909
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 about Charles Darwin. The fragmentary man
Paris: Flammarion, 1909. 8vo. [iv], 371, 8 pp. (publisher's catalogue). FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, uncut. 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. Darwin is... More about Les theories de l'evolution
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 about Zoologie analytique, ou methode naturelle de classification
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. 2 volumes. 8vo. xix, [i], 374, [2]; vii, [i], 408, [4] pp. Early American edition. Frontispiece and 3 lithograph plates (1 tinted red) in Volume I; Volume II with a folding colored map as frontispiece and 11 plates (1 folding, 4 tinted blue)... More about The history of creation: or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of...
Cambridge: University Press, 1934. 4to. 23, [1] pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Pearson. Original gilt-lettered cloth. Only edition of this delightful tribute to Karl Pearson on the celebration of his fiftieth year as a professor at Cambridge. The speeches here are delivered by many of his past... More about Speeches delivered at a dinner held in University College, London In honour of Professor Karl...
Paris: Chez Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1807. 2 vols. 8vo. xviii, 493, [1]; [4], 523, [1] pp. Calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine. Fourth edition.The author's popular physiological treatise, first published in 1801 and subsequently translated into many languages and editions. Based on the author's public lectures, this work established a.... More about Nouveaux elements de physiologie
Basel und Genf: H. Georg’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1864. Seven volumes (6 facsicles and text volume). 4to. viii, 63, [12] pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 82 unbound double-plate lithographs loose in the 6 facsicles. Text and facsicles in original printed wrappers, all contained in the original publisher's printed slipcase. Apart from... More about Crania Helvetica
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo. xi, 311 pp., plus 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. FIRST EDITION. Coloured frontispiece and 100 illustrations. Original cloth, uncut. First edition of a marvelous parable of the plant world. The book manages to explain the complex workings of vegetable life in layman's terms by presenting... More about The sagacity and morality of plants
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 8vo. xvi, 494 pp. SECOND EDITION. With half-title and 2 page publisher's advertisements. Heliotype frontispiece portrait of author, 1 hand-coloured folding map, text illustrations and diagrams. Original green cloth. Second edition of Wallace's treatise on the theory of natural selection. This is Wallace's restatement of... More about Darwinism. An exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its application
