Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution.
London: Duckworth, 1918. 7 plates and text illustrations. 372 pages, thick 8vo, green cloth. London: Duckworth, 1918. First Edition. Very good. First Edition of this important work. Waller 220.
EVOLUTION
The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 2 volumes, 8vo, beige cloth, d.w. Chicago: Chicago University Press, (1977). First Edition. A near fine copy in slightly chipped dust jackets.
Darwinism and Its Data: The Adaptive Coloration of Animals
New York: Garland, 1992. 404pp. Thick 8vo, red-lettered silver boards. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1992. A very near fine copy. Harvard Dissertations in the History of Science series.
Charles Darwin: "A Man of Enlarged Curiosity".
Cambridge: Harper & Row, 1981. Black & white illustrations. 536pp. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper: light edge-wear and rubbing on d.w. Cambridge: Harper & Row, (1981). Very good.
Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white by Wayne McLoughlin. 238pp. 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper; d.w. edge-worn with small tears. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. Very good.
A Million Years of Man: The Story of Human Development as a Part of Nature.
Profusely Illustrated. 335pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Cleveland: World, (1963). Near fine.
A Hundred Years of Evolution.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1960. x + 206pp., 12mo, cloth, d.w.; light chipping at spine ends, small tear lower front. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1960. A near fine copy in a very good (-) dust jacket.
Autographed Letter Signed
Edinburgh: 1854. 3 pages (front and back) each measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches, Edinburgh, October 6, 1854 -- a chatty letter to a colleague, in small part: "...Mr. Watson has presented himself and your letter, and I am in no doubt of adding him as an acceptable addition to our corps of literary priests in Edinburgh, since he has appeared at your Tuesday evening meetings. I shall introduce him to one or two friends." Faint staining, but still in very...
Charles Darwin.
London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. Frontispiece in color, profusely illustrated in b/w and some color, 231pp. 8vo, maroon cloth, d.w. (top corner of front cover bumped, top spine end slightly bumped on d.w.) London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, (1973). A very good(+) copy. From the Great Lives series edited by Elizabeth Longford.
The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution.
An Introduction to the Study of Paleoanthropology. 201pp. Thin 8vo, cloth, d.w. Chicago UP, (1964). Near fine.
The Many Worlds of Man.
Profusely illustrated by Stephen Rogers Peck. 305pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Crowell, (1964). Near fine.
The Evolution of Man and Society.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Charts. 753pp., thick, 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969). A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Doubts About Darwinism
New York: Longmans, 1903. 114 pages. Slim 8vo, gilt-lettered maroon cloth; ex-library copy with several small plates, lower front corner bumped. London: Longmans, 1903. Overall a very good copy.
An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of The American Philosophical Society
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1976. Edited and Annotated by P. Thomas Carroll. Foreword by Frederick Burkhardt. Frontis portrait. Illustrated. xli + 235pp., 4to, cloth. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1976. A very good ( ) copy.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1980. With the original illustrations. 658 pages, large, thick 8vo, gilt-decorated green leather, a.e.g. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1980. A fine copy. The Great Books of the Western World.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1978. Illustrated by Walter Rane. 610 pages, (all edges gilt) large 8vo, gilt-stamped light green leather, green silk moire endpapers (endpapers sunned to orange at edges). Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1978. A fine copy with the only issue being the sunning.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
Norwalk: Easton, 1979. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. 362pp. Short thick 4to, gilt-stamped black leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1979). A fine copy.
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: Murray, 1871. 2 volumes. Illustrations within the text. viii, 423, [1], 16; viii, [2], 475, [1], 16 pages. Short 8vo, publisher's original green cloth (covers spotted & lightly worn at ends and tips; small ownership signatures at top of titles, else rather clean pages). London: John Murray, 1871. First printing of the first edition -- with "transmitted" as first word of page 297 in first volume and Errata on verso of title in 2nd volume; includes 16pp publishers advertisements...
The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex.
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. With Preface by Ashley Montagu. Drawings by Fritz Kredel. 362pp. 4to, green morocco-backed boards, tooled gilt stamped spine, board slipcase. Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Fine.
The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex.
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. With Preface by Ashley Montagu. Drawings by Fritz Kredel. 362pp. 4to, green morocco-backed boards, tooled gilt stamped spine, board slipcase. Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Fine in a very good, slightly cracked slipcase.
The New Conceptions of Matter.
Frontis. Illus. 224pp., cloth, light wear at top of spine. N.Y., 1931.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1860. Illustrated with 1 folding lithographed diagram, facing page 117. ix, [1], 502 pages + 32 pages of Murray's ads. 8vo, original deep green textured cloth with decorative blind-stamped covers and gilt-stamped spine (cloth rubbed and with some spotting on front cover, and light wear at spine ends and corners; the original salmon brown end papers are well preserved with contemporary ownership signature on pastedown, but otherwise a very clean, tight & unsophisticated copy. London: John Murray...
The Origin of Species.
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1975. 507 pages. Thick 8vo, ornately gilt-stamped brown leather, a.e.g. Franklin Library, 1975. Gilt at edges is somewhat scuffed, still a near fine copy. 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. A Limited Edition.
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.
Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986. Black & white illustrations. 368 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper. (Bethesda, Maryland): Adler & Adler, (1986). Very good.
Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. 381 pages. 8vo, blue cloth; worn at head, tattered d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. Very good(-) in poor d.w.