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
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
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
London: John Murray, 1871. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, 423, [1]; viii, [ii], 475, [1] pp., plus 16-page publisher's advertisements dated January, 1871, in both volumes. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Numerous text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth binding; an excellent set. More
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
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. 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
![Item #4893 ALS [Letter by Francis Darwin, announcing the death of his mother]. Francis DARWIN](/pictures/thumb/4893.jpg?v=1551459885)
[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
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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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
