- Schoolprize and bookplate on upper endpaper; a few lvs. sl. foxed; tiny inkstain on lower edge. Good/ fine copy.

= Freeman 801. This botanical work "was concerned with working out in detail the relationships between sexual structures of orchids and the insects which fertilise them, their evolution being attributed to natural selection. It is therefore the first of the volumes of supporting evidence. It was much praised by botanists (...)." (Freeman).

Idem. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. Ibid., idem, 1876, 2nd thousand, VIII,208,32(advert.)p., 13 woodengr. ills., orig. green giltlettered blindst. cl.

- Ex-library copy w. stamps on prelim. lvs. etc.; occas. sl. foxed. Extremities sl. rubbed. = Freeman 1457.

Idem and Seward, A.C. (ed.). More Letters of Charles Darwin. A Record of his Work in a Series of hitherto Unpublished Letters. New York, D. Appleton, 1903, 2 vols., XXIV,494; VIII,508p., 2 photogravure frontisp. portraits and 13 portrait plates, orig. giltlettered cl., t.e.g.

- Hinges sl. weak; both vols. w. owner's stamp and entry. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn. = Freeman 1549.

AND 1 other: F. DARWIN (ed.), Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of his Published Letters (London, 1902, helioengr. frontisp. portrait, orig. giltlettered blindst. cl. Freeman 1471; abridged ed.).

- Extremities sl. rubbed. Good set.

= Contains: I. Collected Essays. Vol. 2 and 7-9: Darwiniana (1893, from the library of British embryologist John Graham Kerr); Man's Place in Nature (1894, 2 copies, 1x with 2 advert.p. at the end); Discourses: Biological & Geological (1894); Evolution & Ethics (1894); II. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by His Son Leonard Huxley. Vol. 1 and 3 (1903, 2 (of 3) vols., 2 diff. helioengr. frontisp. portraits). Norman Library I, p.413: "Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog" for his outspoken defence on the theory of evolution through natural selection, particularly as it pertained to man".

AND 2 others by the same in 3 vols.

= Facs. edition of: I. C.R. BREE, Species not Transmutable, Nor the Result of Secondary Causes (London, 1860); II. G.D. CAMPBELL, The Reign of Law (London, 1867); III. A.R. WALLACE, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (London, 1870); IV. St. G.J. MIVART, On the Genesis of Species (London, 1871).

Seward, A.C. (ed.). Darwin and Modern Science. Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species. Cambridge, University Press, 1910, 2nd ed., XVII,(1),595p., frontisp. portrait, 4 (col.) plates, ills., orig. giltlettered cl.

- Frontisp. and 2 plates browned from flimsies. Cloth partly sunned.

Costa, J.T. (ed.). On the Organic Law of Change. A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 2013, XII,(2),573p., ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., thick 8vo. - AND 8 others similar, i.a. S.M. WALTERS and E.A. STOW, Darwin's Mentor. John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 (Cambridge, 2001, col. plates, ills., orig. giltlettered boards w. dustwr.).

- (Sl.) foxed. Cloth sl. worn. = Rare Darwinist work.

AND 6 others similar, i.a. A. KIRCHHOFF, Darwinismus angewandt auf Völker und Staaten (Halle, 1910, orig. wr.).

- Vol. 1 (sl.) foxed; hinges weak; binding faded. Otherwise a good set.

AND 4 others, i.a. (E. BELL), The Primrose and Darwinism (London, 1902, woodengr. ills., orig. gilt cl.).

- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned, mostly the plates and surrounding lvs.; partly erased library stamps on title-p. Bindings rubbed/ worn along extremities.

= Volume 1 and 2 are reissues from editions 1736 and 1746. John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB).

AND 1 other.

= Luxurious facsimile reprint of the ed. Amst., 1705.

AND 1 other on the same publication: G. NEBEL, Die schönsten Tafeln aus dem grossen Buch der Schmetterlinge und Pflanzen (...) (Hamburg, 1964, textbooklet and 17 (col.) plates, loosely inserted in hleather portfolio as issued, folio).