Search results for: 'DARWIN, Charles'
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DARWIN, Charles. Collection of 12 original cabinet card portraits of figures associated with Charles Darwin:c.1890
Striking and handsomely presented photographic polyptych of major British figures of the late 19th century, a number having a strong association with Charles Darwin or his "bulldog" T. H. Huxley, including Frederick Temple, archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Lubbock, and Huxley himself.
Top row:
1) Queen Victoria (1819-1901): this fine... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126612
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DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed to Sir Henry Holland.Down, Bromley, Kent : [1864]
An unpublished fully autograph letter signed from Darwin to Sir Henry Holland, thanking him for congratulations on his receipt of the Copley medal, discussing Herbert Spencer's new work and his own health and commenting on Holland's travel and adventures ("How wonderful your strength & vigour of interest are: I had heard of your Gibraltar expedition").
Sir... Learn More£14,000.00Stock Code: 142404
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DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed, to Henry Colburn.[late October 1837]
An unrecorded early letter from Charles Darwin to his publisher Henry Colburn, regarding the proofing of his upcoming first book, the Voyage of the Beagle, the seminal account of probably the most important voyage in the history of science.
Darwin completed the first draft of the book in June 1837, and in late September sent the manuscript to... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 142676
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DARWIN, Charles. On the various contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.London : 1862
First edition, first issue, with advertisements dated December 1861. It is Darwin's first book after the Origin of Species, and the first volume of supporting evidence - it attributes the symbiosis between orchids and insects to natural selection. Darwin wrote to his publisher that "I think this little volume will do good to the 'Origin', as it shows... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 137117
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DARWIN, Charles. "Geology" in: A Manual of Scientific Enquiry;London : 1851
Second edition, including on pp. 166-204 Charles Darwin's article, "Geology". In the first issue, Darwin's article had several errors corrected with a 20-page cancel inserted in a pocket inside the rear board. The second issue has the corrections made within the text.
"This useful book... went through six editions, remaining in print until 1906.... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 142129
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.London : 1871
First edition, first issue of both volumes (vol. I with "transmitted" on p. 297; vol. II with errata on the verso of the title leaf). Here the word "evolution" appears for the first time in any of Darwin's works, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year.
Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 142082
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DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.London : 1868
First edition, second issue (with the one-line erratum in volume I); 1,250 copies were published in February 1868 and the two issues have "considerable textual differences" (Freeman). "The term 'survival of the fittest' (borrowed at Wallace's insistence from Herbert Spencer's 1866 Principles of Biology) first appeared in the Variation and in the fifth... Learn MoreSpecial Price £1,500.00 Regular Price £2,000.00Stock Code: 113772
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DARWIN, Charles & Francis. The Power of Movement in Plants.London : 1880
First edition, first issue, with 32 pp. inserted adverts dated May 1878 and with two lines of errata at the foot of page x; 1,500 copies were printed. The collaborative authorship proclaimed on the title page reflects Darwin's concern to introduce his children into the world of science. Francis Darwin had trained as a doctor but turned from medicine... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 129604
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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.London : 1875
Sixth edition, fifth issue, marked as the "fifteenth thousand" on the title page. The sixth edition is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually made revisions to his text; this edition featuring a new chapter, chapter VII, and a glossary by W. S. Dallas. "The edition was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type... giving the general... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 120369
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DARWIN, Charles. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.London : 1876
First edition. Darwin's research on fertilisation in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution and natural selection. To demonstrate that genetic variation gave organisms an advantage in the struggle for survival, he performed experiments demonstrating that self-fertilisation weakened plants in comparison with those that had been cross-fertilised.... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 142069
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1866
Fourth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fourth edition of 1866 was of 1,500 copies. It was again extensively altered, and it is in this one that the date of the first edition, as given on the verso of the half title, is corrected from October 1st to November 24th 1859" (ibid.) The 32 pp. of adverts bound at... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 121494
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex.New York : 1871
First US edition, later issue without errata. First published in the UK earlier that year, it was in this work that the word "evolution" appears for the first time, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year. Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle the thorny question of human evolution,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 117907
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1869
Fifth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fifth edition of 1869 was of 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "the survival of the fittest", Herbert Spencer's term, for the first time; it appears first in the heading of Chapter IV" (Freeman). This copy with... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 120387
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1859
First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection, which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory; 1,250 copies were printed.
"The... Learn More£225,000.00Stock Code: 138146
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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.London : 1872
Sixth edition, second issue, printed simultaneously with the first issue, which is marked as the "eleventh thousand" on the title page. Freeman notes that the second issue is "notably less common". The sixth edition is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually made revisions to his text; this edition featuring a new chapter, chapter VII, and a glossary... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 120358
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DARWIN, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.London : 1881
First edition, first issue, of Darwin's final book. Published the year before his death, the work was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies within a year, and indeed initially sold faster than the Origin of Species had done.
The culmination of ten years of intensive research and close observation on the interaction of earthworms with their... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 142075
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DARWIN, Charles. Journal of ResearchesLondon : 1839
First separate edition, printed from the same sheets as Volume III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, but with prelims i-iv cancelled and v-vi discarded. "His first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed.... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 130580
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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.London : 1873
Sixth edition, fourth issue, marked, like the third issue of 1872, as the "thirteenth thousand" on the title page. The sixth edition is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually made revisions to his text; this sixth edition subsequently featured a new chapter, chapter VII, as well as a glossary by W. S. Dallas. "The edition was aimed at a wider... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127700
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.London : 1871
First edition, first issue of both volumes; a very nice, clean copy in the original cloth. Here the word "evolution" appears for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year.
Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 144126
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DARWIN, Charles. Insectivorous Plants.London : 1875
First edition, from the first impression of 1,000 copies. "These meticulous studies form a minor contribution to the evolutionary series by the study of the adaptations of such plants to impoverished conditions... The book was published on 2 July 1875, in a standard binding without inserted advertisements. It is stated that 3,000 were printed, of which... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 120375
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DARWIN, Charles. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species.London : 1877
First edition, published in a single issue of 1,250 copies in July 1877, with adverts dated either January or March 1877 without priority. One of Darwin's more technical books, much of the content had previously been published in journals.
Freeman notes that "had Darwin not chosen such genetically complex examples, he might have approached more... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 142072
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1859
First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman); one of 1,250 copies. It is somewhat unusual to find the half-title preserved in rebound copies. Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 142455
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DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.London : 1872
First edition, Freeman's first issue, with "that", rather than the second issue misspelling "htat" on the first line of p. 208; a very nice copy indeed in the bright original cloth. Completing Darwin's great cycle of evolutionary writings, Expression of the Emotions "appeared in November, and was awaited with such interest that over 5,000 copies were... Learn More£3,200.00Stock Code: 145213
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,London : 1869
Fifth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fifth edition of 1869 was of 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "the survival of the fittest", Herbert Spencer's term, for the first time; it appears first in the heading of Chapter IV" (Freeman). Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 120399
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DARWIN, Charles; Robert Fitzroy; Philip Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle,London : 1839
First edition, first issue throughout (spines lettered "Colburn, London", the Darwin volume with the omission of the letters F.R.S. after his name on the second title); this set formerly the copy of the Bodleian library in Oxford, with their duplicate de-accession labels, stamps, and marks to the front endpapers and early leaves of each volume.
The... Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 142669
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(BUNBURY, Charles James Fox.) BUNBURY, Frances Joanna (ed.) Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury, Bart.London : 1894
First and sole edition of this highly uncommon memoir of the distinguished palaeobotanist Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, eighth baronet (18091886), printed for private circulation among friends and relatives only. It includes a generous gathering of his letters and substantial selections from his journals, of which ODNB remarks, "few other journals... Learn MoreSpecial Price £1,237.50 Regular Price £1,650.00Stock Code: 123689
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DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor. Mister Tootleoo One & Two.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, of the first joint appearance of the first two Tootleoo books. The author, the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin, collaborated with his wife on children's books, with Bernard providing the text and Elinor the illustrations. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 130310
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DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor. Mr. Tootleoo and Co.London : 1935
First edition, first printing. This is the final Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 144273
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DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor. Tootleoo Two.London : 1927
First edition, first impression, of the second Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 130307
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DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo.London : [1925]
First edition, first printing. The first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 144279
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DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo.London : [1925]
First edition, first printing. The first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. With a handwritten note on the publisher's stationery loosely inserted, apparently unconnected... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 130309
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DARWIN, Erasmus. The Poetical Works.London : 1806
First edition of this posthumous collection placing Darwin's exuberant and eccentric inquiry into the Linnaean system in rhyming couplets alongside his poetic speculations on evolution, the whole much enlivened by numerous plates including a number by Blake and Fuseli. A wide-margined, ?large paper copy in a handsome Regency binding from the library... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 141677
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BABBAGE, Charles. Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on some of its Causes.London : 1830
First octavo edition, in the original boards, of the author's scathing and sensational critique of the English scientific establishment; presentation copy to a Continental colleague, inscribed by Babbage on the front free endpaper "To M. Nicollet from the Author". Joseph Nicolas Nicollet is a fitting recipient, as a member of the Bureau des longitudes,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131351
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ROMANES, George John. Darwin, and after Darwin.Chicago : 1896, 1895, 1897
US editions, being the second edition of the first volume, and the first editions of the second two volumes (the UK editions were published the same years). Romanes (1848-1894) had a considerable influence on the study of Darwinism in the later 19th century. "A decisive influence on his activity and scientific work, in 1874, was when he received a brief... Learn MoreSpecial Price £187.50 Regular Price £375.00Stock Code: 129884
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SEWARD, Anna. Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin,London : 1804
First edition. Anna Seward (1742-1809), dubbed the Swan of Lichfield for her literary accomplishments, was a friend and fellow poet of the physician and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Her Memoir focuses on Darwin's early life in Lichfield from 1756 to 1781 and "reveals her indulgent fondness for his idiosyncratic... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 140150
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READE, W. Winwood. The Outcast.London : 1875
First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my friend Frederick Greenwood, WR - April 75". A pencil note on the endpaper verso notes "Reade died on 24 April 1875 a few days after inscribing this book". Greenwood was editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, to which Reade was a regular contributor, and the two had a long-held correspondence.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139835
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BELT, Thomas. The Naturalist in Nicaragua:London : 1874,
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed verso of the front free endpaper, "P. Brown Esqre, M.D. with the kind regards of the Author", with Brown's ownership inscription to the title page. The son of a Newcastle seedsman, Belt (1832-1878) was educated at a private school conducted by by John Storey, a secretary of Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club,... Learn MoreSpecial Price £1,312.50 Regular Price £1,750.00Stock Code: 114155
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CORNFORD, Frances. Poems.Hampstead : [1910]
First edition, first impression, of Cornford's second book, following the rare Holtbury Idyll (1908), and first poetry collection, including her poem "Youth", later titled "On Rupert Brooke", as well as the notorious "To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train", which became a much anthologized (and parodied) piece.
Frances Cornford (1886-1960, née Frances... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 144493
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. Essai sur le principe de population.Paris : 1809
First French edition, translated by Pierre Prévost. First published in English in 1798, it was perhaps the most influential work of its era on population, arguing that the growth of a population would always outrun its ability to feed itself. The first edition was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name, culminating in... Learn MoreSpecial Price £2,062.50 Regular Price £2,750.00Stock Code: 93446
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1817
First three-volume edition, the fifth overall, with extensive additions compared to the previous editions. Malthus contributed a new preface, rewrote chapters 8 to 13, and provided new chapters on France, England, and the Poor Laws. The additions were so substantial that Malthus also published them in a separate volume, for those who owned earlier editions.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128931
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1806
Third edition, in an extraordinarily fresh contemporary binding, the first edition to be published in two octavo volumes, the format which was to remain the standard in Malthus's lifetime.
This third edition has important alterations and additions, particularly the appendix, in which Malthus replied to some of his many critics; it follows the... Learn More£7,000.00Stock Code: 142661
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.Hamburg : 1867
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed not quite a year after publication on the verso of the title, "Au citoyen César de Paepe, salut fraternel, Karl Marx, Londres 3 Septembre 1868", and with one small pencil correction to the text, also presumably by Marx. The Belgian César De Paepe (18411890) was the leader of the International Working Men's... Learn More£500,000.00Stock Code: 116802
