Healey, E. Emma Darwin. The Inspirational Wife of a Genius.
1st. Ed. Pub. Headline. 2001 pp.x, 372 with b/w. illus. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The first biography of Darwin’s strong, intelligent wife. Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of the famous Josiah, married Charles Darwin in 1839, three years after he returned from his extraordinary voyage on the Beagle. Their life together was intellectually exciting though overshadowed by personal tragedy. Edna Healey has discovered new, and hitherto unpublished material and has had the full support of the Darwin family in writing this major biography.
£12.50 [ref: 66588]
Herbert, S. (Ed.). The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 1980 pp.164 with b/w. photos. and illus. 4to. Fine softback. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series Vol.7.
The Red Notebook is one of a series of notebooks kept by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle from 1831-1836, and dates from May 1836 to September 1836.
£20.00 [ref: 59267]
Howard, J. Darwin.
Pub. O.U.P. 1982 pp.viii, 101. Small ink inscription to front internal card cover. Otherwise a very good copy.
£3.00 [ref: 42841]
Hughes, R.E. Alfred Russel Wallace. Gwyddonydd Anwyddonol.
1st. Ed. Pub. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 1997 pp.viii, 208 with b/w. illus. 8vo. All text in Welsh. Fine softback.
£15.00 [ref: 57953]
Huxley, Julian & Kettlewell, H.B.D. Charles Darwin and His World.
Pub. Book Club Associates. 1975 pp.144 with b/w. photos. and illus. Large 8vo. Bookplate. Thor. vg. hardback in thor. vg. dw.
£7.50 [ref: 55940]
Jones, Steve. Darwin’s Island. The Galapagos in the garden of England.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Rep. Pub. Little, Brown. 2009 pp.307 with b/w. text illus. Royal 8vo. Some notes on ffep. and small amount of underlining to text, o/w. a fine hdbk. in thor. vg. dw.
£4.00 [ref: 52276]
Jones, Steve. Y: The Descent of Men.
1st. Ed. Pub. Little, Brown. 2002 pp.280. 8vo. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.
£10.00 [ref: 52277]
Keynes, Randal. Annie’s Box. Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution.
Pub. Fourth Estate. 2001 pp.xiv, 331 with b/w. plates and figs. 8vo. With some neat inscriptions to ffep and rfep. Also with a review of the book, from the journal Nature, neatly attached to rfep. VG. to fine hdbk in same dw.
£14.00 [ref: 48265]
Knapp, Sandra Footsteps in the Forest. Alfred Russell Wallace in the Amazon.
1st. Ed. Pub. Nat. Hist. Museum. 1999 pp.90 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Title page signed and dated by the author.
Alfred Russel Wallace set out for the Amazon in 1848 to collect natural history specimens. During his time there, he spent almost two years travelling up the Rio Negro, a region few Europeans had explored. A fire on the return journey to England destroyed most of his collections but among the possessions rescued were sketches of fish, later presented to The Natural History Museum.
£15.00 [ref: 66596]
Lack, David. Darwin’s Finches.
1st. Ed. Reissue Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1983 pp.liii, 208 with colour plates, b/w. illus., maps and tables. 8vo. Fine softback. This edition contains a new introduction and notes not present in the first edition
Described by him as “a work of natural history, based on a study of living birds in the Galapagos and of dead specimens in museums”, Lack has attemped to trace the successive stages of the evolution of Galapagos finches from trivial differences between species to much more striking adaptations.
£20.00 [ref: 56856]