Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Iss. Pub. London, Henry Colburn. 1840 pp.[i-iv], [vii], viii-xiv, 615, [pp.609-629 addenda] plus 2 fold out charts (at pp.xiv and pp.538), 4 text woodcuts and 16-pages of Colburn adverts dated August 1839. 8vo. Hardback. Internally nr. fine with minor scattered spotting to contents and a neat repair to one fold-out plate. Original decorated blue cloth with spine professionally relaid and neat restoration to the imprint. Loosely inserted, on ‘The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London’ headed paper, is a handwritten note (dated 22/04/1947) by the then purchaser of this copy in which he explains who he bought the book from. A most pleasing copy. Freeman 12.
Darwin’s ‘first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the origin of species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed’ (Freeman). It first appeared in its own right in 1839. We offer for sale here a copy of the ‘final, third, issue of the first edition [and] it is identical to the second except that the conjugate half-title and title leaves have been reprinted. This is the scarcest of the three, but in my experience the maps are always inserted in the text. Some copies also have the 16 pp inserted advertisements of August 1839...’ (Freeman).
£8,500.00 [ref: 67910]

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. By means of Natural Selection.
2nd. Ed. 2nd. Issue. Pub. John Murray, London. 1860 pp.ix, 502 with half-title, fold-out lithographic diagram plus 32-page John Murray catalogue (dated Jan. 1860). 8vo. Hardback. With ‘Fifth Thousand’ on title-page as called for by Freeman. This copy has benefited from some professional conservation. Internally the blank fore-margins of six leaves (incl. half and full-titles) have been neatly strengthened with conservation material and the blank corner of two leaves repaired. Internal hinges have been sympathetically strengthened retaining the original endpapers. The fore-edges of the free-endpapers show a little wear, o/w. the contents are very clean and nr. fine. With original binders ticket of Edmonds and Remnants, London. The spine ends of the original decorated green cloth binding have been relaid - the binding being nicely bright and in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy. Freeman 376, binding variant ‘a’.
The 1,250 copies of the first edition of 1859 were sold out almost immediately and this revised second edition (identified by ‘fifth thousand’ on the title-page) was published just three months later. In a very important addition to the text, Darwin here tries to reconcile the theory of evolution with the traditional conception of God’s creation of the world.
£7,500.00 [ref: 70866]

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. And Selection in Relation to Sex.
2nd. (New, Rev. & Aug.) Ed. Pub. Appleton. 1875 pp.xvi, 688 with figs. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original illustrated boards lightly rubbed to extremities, o/w. nr. fine. Freeman 946.
A very pleasing copy of the second edition, which was extensively revised and ‘contains a note on the brains of man and apes by T.H. Huxley at pp.199-206,’ (Freeman).
£250.00 [ref: 61119]

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. And selection in relation to sex.
1st. Ed. 7th. Thou. Pub. John Murray. 1871 Two volumes. 8vo. Hardbacks. Contents nr. fine. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, some rubbing to extremities, o/w. thor. vg. Both volumes benefited from more recent spines (retaining original end-papers) all in fine condition. With heraldic bookplate of Arthur Byrom Gordon to front-paste down of both volumes. (Freeman 939).
The first issue of ‘The Descent of Man’ had a print-run of just 2,500 copies. It was published in February 1871, closely followed in March 1871 by the second issue printing of a further 2,000 copies. There were two further issues of the two volume English edition in April and December 1871, the seventh and eighth thousands. Controversially received like ‘Origin of Species’ before it, the word ‘evolution’ occurs here for the first time in any of Darwin’s works. It can be found on page 2 of the first volume.
£950.00 [ref: 60999]

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Darwin, Charles. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species.
2nd. Ed. 3rd. Thou. Pub. John Murray. 1888 pp.xxiv, 352, plus 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated Dec. 1883. 8vo. Hardback. Neat ownership insc. dated 1908 and small stamp to ffep ‘BM/ZFPT’. Light mark to rear endpapers. Contents nr. fine. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine lightly rubbed to extremities and in thor. vg. condition. (Freeman 1283).
£350.00 [ref: 66439]

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Darwin, Charles. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1876 pp.viii, 482, one diagram, 109 tables and 3 line Errata slip at p.viii. 8vo. Two short closed tears to bottom margin of p.419, o/w. contents in fine condition. Original green cloth, boards very lightly shelf-rubbed, o/w. in fine condition. A nr. fine copy. Very pleasing. Freeman 1249.
This ‘The first edition which has an errata slip of three lines facing p.viii, was published on November 10, 1876.’ Freeman.
£1,675.00 [ref: 52998]

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Darwin, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable Mould. Through the action of Worms with Observations on their Habits.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Thou. Pub. John Murray. 1881 pp.vii, [i], 326 with b/w. illus. in text, errata slip plus 1-page publisher’s Catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Contents exceptionally clean and nr. fine. Original green cloth with gilt lettering in nr. fine condition, just ever so lightly rubbed on tips. A most pleasing copy. Freeman 1359.
£400.00 [ref: 65485]

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Darwin, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Iss. Pub. John Murray. 1868 Two volume set with 32-pages of adverts (dated April 1867) to rear of Vol. I and 2-pages of adverts (dated February 1868) to rear of Vol. II. With Edwards & Remnants binder’s label to pastedown of Vol. I. 8vo. Hardback. With signature of possibly the first owner (dated ‘68) to ffep of both vols. Some spotting to ends, only very occ. elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Index sections unopened. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth showing light shelf wear o/w. nr. fine. Freeman 878. This set was clearly owned by someone who studied both this work and ‘The Origin of Species’. There are informed pencil notes within the text, 17 in number, alongside 12 annotations all leading to a larger pencil note at the end of Vol. II in which the writer puts forward his argument as to why Darwin’s argument ‘breaksdown’ - this note dated 1871.
£900.00 [ref: 68564]

Drummond, The Hon. W.H. The Large Game. And Natural History of South and South-East Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 1875 pp.xxi, [i], 428 with colour frontis., colour illus. title-page, 13 plates (12 in colour), 20 b/w. illus., and 1 full-page colour map. 8vo. TEG. Some browning to half-title and blank verso of map. Some spotting to fore-edge of text block and only a very minor amount internally, o/w. contents fine. Period half-morocco over green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£225.00 [ref: 63773]

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Dunker, Guilielmo. Mollusca Japonica. Descripta Et Tabulis Tribus Iconum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Stuttgartiae. 1861 pp.iv, 34 with three hand-coloured lithograph plates depicting 65 new species. More recently rebound in cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. With neat ownership inscription to title page. Scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. Scarce. Was £800.00.
A very scarce work on the mollusca of Japan, indeed this was the first publication to deal exclusively with this subject. Dunker was a mining engineer and mineralogist. His extensive collection of shells was placed in the Natural History Museum in Berlin after his death, where it remains part of the permanent collection.
£725.00 [ref: 47797]

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