Life Letters Including by Darwin Francis Charles Darwin (89 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is sturdy; the spine is lightly creased. Covers show some light wear around the corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 1 has underlining in the text. Covers faded. ; Volumes 1 and 2; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Vol. 1: xxii, 558 pp. Second printing. The spine titles are faded; very light foxing to the page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Vol. 2: 562 pp. Second printing. The spine titles are faded; very light foxing to the page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

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THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, iv + 418pp, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some sl loss, moderate tanning to spine, light bruising to board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light cracking to gutters throughout, moderate foxing to prelims).

VOLUME ONE ONLY. 205x145 mm. VIII+558 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Cover corners and edges slightly worn. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. Burgundy leather with marbled boards and gilt spine title. Leather chipped at the fore corners and minor chipping at the spine head, crack running across the spine width, some spine darkening. NW4.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Gilt Three Quarter Burgundy Leather on Marbled Boards, 562 pp., Fair with corners and some edges worn to boards, staining, some mold on endpapers, leather on spine split; except for some staining, text block is in Very Good shape. Illustrated frontispiece, facsimile of Darwin's handwriting.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Later edition. Foreword by George Gaylord Simpson. Two volumes. Both volumes near fine with a tanned spine, with volume two having a tiny hole in the spine. Both lacking the dustwrappers, but both are inside the publisher's slip case.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vol. II (only): 562 pages. Subjects; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). Scientists Great Britain Biography. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. Two volume set from the first authorized American edition of Darwin's work. This collection of letters is bound in three-quarter leather with marbled boards. Gilt titles on spine, gilt on top edge. Books are in good solid condition overall; some wear to leather along the edges, heaviest at corners. Wear near hinges, but bindings are solid. Former owner's name present in pencil, otherwise pages are just slightly browned. Each volume contains approximately 560 indexed pages. 5 x 7.5 inches each.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. VOLUME 2 ONLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. [A superior set, suitable for a fine library: Darwin's first major biography] Near fine. 3 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor spotting to edge. Portrait frontispiece. Gilt spine lettering, rule. Freeman 1457. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Second Edition. Three volumes, complete. Beautiful contemporary 3/4 dark brown leather binding with marbled (mostly red) paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 6" x 8 3/4." All pages of all volumes, complete. Black-and-white illustrations (each volume has at least one), complete. Vol. I: 395 pages; four illustrations including frontispiece; tipped-in Errata in front. Vol. II: 393 pages; two illustrations including frontistpiece. Vol. III: 418 pages; one frontispiece; Appendices and Index in back. List of Illustrations in front of each volume. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, occasional small marks, and occasional foxing. Covers are very clean and intact except for light wear to extremities, slight darkening to top edge of text block, and a small bump on fore-edge of Vol. III's back cover. Marbling on boards, edges of text block, and endpapers features rich, saturated colors and is still vibrant and not rubbed (slight darkening on top edges of text blocks but that is the only notable defect as to the marbling). Each volume and the overall set are Fine. Beautiful set of three volumes containing a biography of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the eminent English naturalist, biologist, and geologist. Also includes an autobiographical chapter and reprinted letters by Charles. Edited by Francis Darwin (1848-1925), Charles's third son who went on to become a botanist.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Complete in three volumes, cloth-bound, hardcovers, octavos (23 x 14 cm), pp. ix, [1], 395; [4], 393; iv, 418. English text, edited by Francis Darwin. Bound in publisher's original cloth, coated endpapers, frontispieces, 4 illustrations, printed footnotes, appendices and index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure. Minor marks to covers, the spine ends slightly bumped. Some spotting mostly confined to page edges. Previous owner details neatly inked to title-pages. A handsome set. Notes: The first edition, first printing of this comprehensive biography of noted nineteenth-century English naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin, complete in three volumes, and edited by his son, Francis Darwin. Volume I includes an autobiographical chapter as well as chapters on childhood and the Darwin family, as well as an extensive collection of letters. Volume II covers the beginnings of Darwin's 'Origin of Species' and the spread of evolution. Volume III covers approximately the last twenty years of Darwin's life and corresponding works, as well as a collection of botanical letters. Also including four lengthy appendices with a frontispiece to each volume and a photolithograph facsimile of Darwin's handwriting, another engraved plate, and two in-text engravings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Authorized edition. Two volumes, pp vi, 538; 562, with index, frontispiece in each volume, and a few additional illustrations. Bound in mauve cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Minor wear sheld wear, else fine. Includes an Introduction by Francis Darwin, 87 letters selected from the correspondence of Charles Darwin, an autobiographical chapter written by Charles Darwin for his family, and an essay by Thomas Huxley "On the reception of the 'Origin of Species.'".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 volume set complete. Books do have shelf wear. Pages are tanning but clean. Pages are intact.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. pp 395; 393; 418. Large format paperback. Originally published in London by John Murray, 1887. Fine.

Softcover. Octavo, three volumes. In Very Good condition. Green and yellow spines with green lettering. Covers and textblocks have mild shelving wear. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). 1402906. FP New Rockville Stock.