Allan, M. Darwin and his Flowers.
Pub. Faber and Faber. 1977 pp. 318 with numerous colour and b/w. photographs and illus. A vg. copy in same dw.
It was through his studies on flowers that Darwin put his theory of Natural selection to the test. From Darwin’s own accounts of his work with plants, and from the mass of original material he left plus the unpublished letters, Mea Allan gives us a profound and delightful picture of this great man.
£35.00 [ref: 37301]

Allan, M. Darwin and His Flowers. The Key to Natural Selection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber. 1977 pp.318 with colour and b/w. photographs; b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
What has never been pointed out about Darwin and the ‘Origin’ is that it was through his studies of flowers that he put his Natural Selection theory to the test. For the first time, in this work, the story is knowledgably and sensitively told by Mea Allan. She provides the reader with a profound and delightfully human picture of the man who ‘could not tell a daisy from a dandelion’ but who ended by teaching the botanists.
£9.50 [ref: 64894]

Atkins, Sir Hedley. Down: The Home of the Darwins. The Story of a House and the People who lived there.
1st. Rev. Ed. Pub. Phillimore / Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1976 pp.131 with b/w. photos. & illus., plus two family trees. 4to. Hardback. Ex-Lib. Linnean Soc. Contents fine. Green cloth boards nr. fine.
A copy of the revised impression from 1976. A history of the Down House estate as well as a biographical study of Darwin and his domestic circumstances.
£22.00 [ref: 67977]

Aydon, C. Charles Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. Constable. 2002 pp.xxvi, 326 with b/w. photos and maps. 8vo. Bookplate. Fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned on spine. Out-of-print.
Aimed at readers who want more than a short introduction, but not a full-scale academic biography. Includes an extended postcript reviewing the ups and downs of Darwin’s reputation since his death, and evaluates the personal qualities, and the external influences, which made his achievements possible.
£7.50 [ref: 55952]

Barlow, N. (Ed.). Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pilot Press. 1945 pp.279 with b/w. illus. and fold-out map. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Freeman No. 1571.
£14.00 [ref: 69378]

Barlow, N. (Ed.). Darwin and Henslow. The Growth of an Idea. Letters 1831-1860.
Pub. Bentham-Moxon. 1967 pp.xii, 251 with plates and a fold-out maps. The dw. is sl. worn and chipped. Overall a very good copy. Freeman No. 1598.
£10.00 [ref: 42851]

Barlow, Nora. (Ed.). The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. 1809-1882. The First Complete Version.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1958 pp.253 with 4 b/w. plates. 8vo. A fine hardback in vg. dw., with small loss to rear. Freeman No. 1497.
Darwin’s autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. Since it was written primarily for his own children, many passages and references to personalities were omitted for family reasons. This version, edited by his granddaughter, Nora Barlow, is an accurate transcription from the original manuscript, with earlier omissions restored.
£40.00 [ref: 69377]

Barrett, P.H. & Freeman, R.B.(Ed). The Works of Charles Darwin. Volume 14. Monographs of the Fossil Lepadidae and the Fossil Balanidae.
Pbk. Fac. Ed. Pub. New York Uni. Press. 1988 pp.6, vi, 123, v, 58 with b/w. reproductions of the original plates and illus. 8vo. Signature. Fine softback.
A very well produced reproduction of Darwin’s ‘Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae’ (1851), and ‘A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidae’ (1854)
£15.00 [ref: 59587]

Barrett, P.H. (Ed.). The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin. 2 Volumes. With a foreword by T. Dobzhansky.
Pub. Uni. Chicago. 1977 2 Volumes with figs. throughout. A nr. fine set in sl. spine-faded dustwrappers.
£25.00 [ref: 42865]

Barrett, P.H. et al (Eds.). Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1844. Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1987 pp.viii, 747 with b/w. frontis. 4to. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Fine hardback.
Through a series of vastly influential writings, Darwin revolutionised the content and direction of science and permanently altered the shape of modern culture. In this volume are the notes he kept in the course of creating his body of work. Taken together these notes contain the core of his most important writing.
£70.00 [ref: 67975]