2073 - 2370 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TRANSPORT, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- First and final lvs. sl. foxed; hinges strengthened w. sellotape; owner's stamp on dedic. leaf. Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed; spine w. sm. repaired spot.
= With the publisher's advertisements, dated March 1877 (w. some unopened lvs.). Freeman 1277.
- Pastedowns sl. dam. at inner hinge; title-p. w. owner's stamp and sm. tear in blank margin; occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends and corners sl. worn. Good copy.
= Second issue of the first ed. with the plates in the second state (numb. in Roman). Freeman 1142; cf. Garrison/ Morton 4975 and Norman 600: "(...) the only work by Darwin to be illustrated with photographs, and (...) one of the first books to feature heliotype plates." "With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology (animal behavior) and conveyance of information (communication theory) and made a major contribution to psychology" (DSB III, p.575).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on title-p. Extremities sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Freeman 1146; cf. Garrison/ Morton 4975.
AND 6 others by the same, incl. 3 copies of Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology (ibid., 1889/ 1896/ ±1900).
- Sl. foxed. Binding sl. soiled; top of spine and corners sl. rubbed/ bumped.
= Rare. Freeman 1555: "Printed, not published, for presentation only" (on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species). This copy presented to Professor E.A. Minchin, British protozoologist and spongiologist.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges strengthened w. sellotape. Spine-ends and corners sl. worn.
= Freeman 1217.
- First free endpaper cut out. Fore-edge sl. foxed. Good/ fine copy. = Freeman 46.
Idem. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Ibid., idem, 1890, 2nd rev. and enl. ed., 27th thousand, XVI,693p., 78 woodengr. ills., orig. giltlettered green blindst. cl.
- Without the publisher's advertisements; hinges strengthened w. sellotape; owner's entry on first blank. Extremities (sl.) worn.
= Freeman 970.
- Plate sl. yellowed and w. dam. spot in blank margin. = Rare. Freeman 2363 (online).
Wallace, A.R. De natuur der tropen en andere schetsen. Amst., J.H. de Bussy, 1880, 1st ed., (4),447p., orig. giltlettered pict. cl.
- Bookblock loose; spine dam. Contents fine.
= Rare (anonymous) Dutch transl. of Wallace's Tropical Nature and Other Essays (1878).
AND 4 others similar, i.a. J.H.F. KOHLBRUGGE, Critiek der Descendentietheorie (Utr., 1936, 47 woodengr. ills., contemp. hcl.).
- Occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Extremities sl. worn. Good/ fine copy.
= Rare. Copy of the 2nd Dutch ed. (1st ed. Haarlem, 1860) of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Freeman 2008 (online).
AND a copy of the 3rd(?) ed. of the same work (ibid., idem, 1869, 2 vols., contemp. unif. boards. Covers loosening; 1 vol. bookblock broken; cf. Freeman 649).
- Bookplate on upper and lower pastedown; owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= The 6th ed. ("with additions and corrections to 1872") was the last edition revised by Darwin himself and the first edition in which the word "evolution" was used. Freeman 412.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges strengthened w. sellotape. Spine sl. darkened. Good copy.
= Rare first issue of the first ed., with the publisher's advertisements (dated May 1878). Freeman 1325. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Owner's entries on first free endpaper; scattered pencil annots.; 1 quire loosening. Backstrip dam.; corners showing.
= 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).
AND a duplicate of the above ed. (lacks 1 plate but w. 2 extra fold. plates at the end).
- Both vols. w. libr. stamp on title-p.; hinges weakening. Spines sl. darkened; spine-ends and corners sl. worn. Fine copies.
= Rare first issue of the first ed., with the publisher's advertisements in both vols. (dated April 1867 and February 1868) and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, London on lower pastedown of vol. 2. Freeman 877 (with 6 lines errata in vol. 1 and 7 in vol. 2); Garrison/ Morton 224.1. "This represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters." (Freeman p.123). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- 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.
- Hinges weak; first and final 3 lvs. sl. foxed; owner's entry on verso first free endpaper. Good/ fine copy.
= Freeman 837.
= Comprises: I. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (2 copies, 1873/ 1892, 10th/ 11th thousand. One vol. w. owner's entries on first blank and title-p.; extremities sl. worn. Freeman 1144 and 1149); II. F. DARWIN (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter (1888, rev. ed., 7th thousand, 3 vols. Unopened; first free endpapers dam.; first blanks browned. Freeman 1457); III. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage round the World of H.M.S. 'Beagle' under Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. (1912. Sl. foxed. Freeman 122); IV. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1913. Owner's stamps on prelim. lvs. Freeman 1018).
- A few sm. scratches.
- 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.).