79 1865 Darwin C 
79 1865 Darwin C 
79 1865 Darwin C 
79 1865 Darwin C 
- Six vols. w. first free endpaper cut out; bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on (verso) title-p.; occas. sl. foxed; vol. 1 and 6 lack general title-p. Extremities sl. worn.
= Comprises: 1. Het onstaan der soorten door de natuurlijke teeltkeus, of het bewaard blijven van bevoorrechte rassen in den strijd voor het bestaan (4th enl. and corr. ed.); 2. Het varieëren der huisdieren en cultuurplanten (2 vols.); 3. De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus (2 vols.); 4. Het uitdrukken der gemoedsaandoeningen bij den mensch en de dieren (2nd enl. ed., hcl.); 5. De reis van de "Beagle". Dagboek van de onderzoekingen betreffende de natuurlijke geschiedenis en de geologie van de streken bezocht gedurende de reis van Hr. Ms. "Beagle".
79 1866 Darwin C 
79 1866 Darwin C 
- (Sl.) foxed. = Freeman 913. Second French ed.
79 1867 Darwin C 
79 1867 Darwin C 
- Both vols. (sl.) foxed.
= Freeman 912. Published in the same year as the first English edition. Bound by A. Lenègre, Paris.
Idem. L'expression des émotions chez l'homme et les animaux. French transl. S. Pozzi and R. Benoit. Ibid., idem, 1877, 2nd rev. ed., (4),VI,(2),404,(2),20(advert)p., 7 helio-engr. plates, woodengr. ills., orig. blindstamped gilt cl.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding trifle rubbed.
AND a duplicate copy of the last work.
79 1868 Darwin C 
79 1868 Darwin C 
79 1868 Darwin C 
- All vols. occas. sl. foxed. Sl. worn/ rubbed at spine-ends and extremities.
= Freeman 1058 and 662 (2nd transl. by E. Barbier).
79 1869 Darwin C 
79 1869 Darwin C 
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol. 1 partly w. lower corner sl. creased. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; vol. 2 joints splitting.
= Freeman 1058.
79 1870 Darwin C 
79 1870 Darwin C 
79 1870 Darwin C 
- Good untrimmed copies w. unopened lvs. and some occas. foxing.
= First French editions, translated by Édouard Heckel. Freeman 1265, 1296 and 1342.
79 1871 Darwin C 
79 1871 Darwin C 
79 1871 Darwin C 
- Second work (sl.) foxed. Good/ fine copies. = Freeman 310 and 1403.
79 1872 Darwin C 
79 1872 Darwin C 
79 1872 Darwin C 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Ex-libr. copy: stamp on first free endpaper and textleaf; covers plasticised; shelftickets on spine.
= Rare. Copy of the 2nd enl. and corr. Dutch ed. (1869; 1st ed. 1864) of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Cf. Freeman 595 (= 649).
Idem. De reis van de "Beagle". Dagboek van de onderzoekingen betreffende de natuurlijke geschiedenis en de geologie van de streken bezocht gedurende de reis van Hr. Ms. "Beagle". Ed. H. Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen and T.C. Winkler. Arnh./ Nijm., E. & M. Cohen, n.d. (1891), 1st Dutch ed., (3),VII,(1),568p., woodengr. plates/ ills., contemp. giltlettered hcl.
- First and final few lvs. sl. foxed. Backstrip sunned. A good/ fine copy.
= Freeman 176. Vol. 7 of "Darwin's Biologische Meesterwerken".
79 1873 Darwin C 
- Lower hinge broken; sl. foxed. Joints splitting; sl. worn at extremities.
= Freeman 661. The 7th French language edition and the 1st in translation by E. Barbier. "There were also difficulties with the first French [translation]. (...) He [Darwin] was not really happy until the third translation by Édouard Barbier appeared in 1876" (Freeman p.84).
79 1874 Darwin C 
79 1874 Darwin C 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Cloth trifle stained. A good/ fine copy. = Rare. Freeman 1237.
79 1875 Darwin C 
79 1875 Darwin C 
79 1875 Darwin C 
- Ad 1: first 2 quires loosening; sl. foxed. Frontcover loose. Ad 2: lacks the plate. Lower hinge weak; quires loosening. Backstrip sl. worn/ discoloured.
= Freeman 309 and 310. Rare, first French ed. of the first and second part of Darwin's Geology of the Voyage of The Beagle. The 3rd part was not contemp. translated into French.
79 1876 Darwin C 
79 1876 Darwin C 
79 1876 Darwin C 
- Hinges weak; some quires loosening; occas. sl. foxed.
= Freeman 1182. "[The Expression of the Emotions] is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment." (Freeman p.142).
79 1877 Darwin C 
79 1877 Darwin C 
79 1877 Darwin C 
79 1877 Darwin C 
- Paper ticket "Haarlem - J.J. van Brederode" pasted over impressum; occas. sl. soiled; 2 lvs. w. sm. stain. Joints splitting; sl. worn/ dam. at spine-ends and corners.
= Freeman 1182. "[The Expression of the Emotions] is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment." (Freeman p.142).
79 1878 Darwin C 
79 1878 Darwin C 
- Both vols. occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; 1st vol. joints splitting; 2nd vol. frontcover sl. stained.
= Freeman 181 (2nd French transl.) and 1342.
79 1879 Darwin C 
79 1879 Darwin C 
- Occas. sl. foxed; 1 vol. upper hinge broken; first lvs. loosening. Backstrips sl. worn/ dam. (1x lacking). A good set.
= Comprises: 1. Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl (1871-1872, 2nd ed., 2 vols., 51 woodengr. ills. Freeman 1065); 2. Über die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl (1872, 5th ed., steelengr. portr. Freeman 676); 3. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication (1873, 2nd ed., 2 vols., 43 woodengr. ills. Freeman 915); 4. Insectenfressende Pflanzen (1876, 1st ed., 30 woodengr. ills. Freeman 1238); 5. Die Bewegungen und Lebensweise der kletternden Pflanzen/ Die verschiedenen Einrichtungen durch welche Orchideen von Insecten befruchtet werden/ Die verschiedenen Blüthenformen an Pflanzen der nämlichen Art (1876-1877, 1st ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., 66 woodengr. ills., 2 copies. Freeman 860, 821 and 1297); 6. Die Wirkungen der Kreuz- und Selbst-Befruchtung im Pflanzenreich (1877, 1st ed., 2 copies. Freeman 1266); 7. Über den Bau und die Verbreitung der Corallen-Riffe/ Geologische Beobachtungen über die Vulcanischen Inseln (1876-1877, 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., 4 fold. (col.) lithogr. maps, 20 woodengr. ills. Freeman 311 and 312). Works 4-7 w. general title "Ch. Darwin's gesammelte Werke" and vol. no. 8-11.
79 1880 Darwin C Chambers R 
79 1880 Darwin C Chambers R 
- First part lacks htitle; title-p. strengthened w. paper on verso. Wrs. sl. dustsoiled. Good, unopended copy.
= Rare. First Dutch ed. of (the anonymously publ.) Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) by Robert Chambers, a collection of evolutionary ideas on the transmutation of species. The work, both controversial and popular, preceded the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).
Darwin, C. De afstamming van den mensch, en de seksueele teeltkeus. Dutch transl. H. Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen. Delft, J. IJkema/ Van Gijn, 1871-1872, 1st Dutch ed., 2 vols., XII,536; VIII,540,(3)p., 128 woodengr. ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl., large 8vo.
- Sl. foxed; vol. 2 upper hinge strengthened w. cl. tape. Backstrips, joints and corners rubbed/ worn.
= Freeman 1053. Subscriber's copy with the cancelled version of p.27-28 and explanatory note by Heijns bound before the new version of p.27-28.
79 1881 Darwin C Wallace A R 
79 1881 Darwin C Wallace A R 
79 1881 Darwin C Wallace A R 
- Backcover sl. stained; spine-ends sl. rubbed. Contents fine.
= Collection of 10 essays on the theory of evolution through natural selection, which Wallace conceived simultaneously with, but independently of, Darwin.
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, C.U.P., 1909, XVII,(1),595p., frontisp. portrait of Darwin and 4 (col.) photogr. plates, orig. giltlettered cl., large 8vo, t.e.g.
- Ex-libr. copy: scattered stamps, bookplates and shelftickets. Cloth sl. worn/ discoloured.
79 1882 Darwin C Wallace A R 
79 1882 Darwin C Wallace A R 
79 1882 Darwin C Wallace A R 
- Bookblock loose; occas. sl. foxed. Top of spine and edges sl. rubbed.
= Very rare. First French transl. of The World of Life by A.R. Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection. "Wallace summed up his work on biology in 1910 with his The World of Life, in which he accepted the chromosome theory of inheritance and Galtons numerical law of inheritance. Numerical phytogeography and zoogeography also are stressed, and the continuing influence of Spiritualism is evident. This was his last extensive work on scientific matters" (DSB).
Romanes, G.-J. l'Évolution mentale chez les animaux. Suivi d'un essai posthume sur l'instinct par Charles Darwin. French transl. H.C. de Varigny. Paris, C. Reinwald, 1884, XVIII,412,20(publ. cat.)p., fold. table, woodengr. ills., orig. gilt cl.
- Occas. sl. foxed; unopened lvs. Binding sl. discoloured; backstrip dam./ loosening.
= First French ed. of Darwin's essay on instinct; Freeman 1441.
AND 7 other French eds. on/ related to (social) Darwinism, incl. P. JACOBY, Études sur la sélection dans ses rapports avec l'hérédité chez l'homme (Paris, 1881, fold. table, contemp. gilt hmor. Sl. foxed).
79 1883 Desaguliers J T 
79 1883 Desaguliers J T 
79 1883 Desaguliers J T 
- 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).
79 1884 Desaguliers J T 
79 1884 Desaguliers J T 
- Upper pastedown loose and dam. Vellum on backcover partly sl. defective.
= John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. "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).