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London: West Brothers, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
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London: West Brothers, 1973. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Norwalk: The Eastern Press, 1976. Quarto, handsome text illustrations. Publisher's full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, a fine copy. The text for this production was taken from the 1872 sixth edition. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1887-1891. Octavo, plates and text illustrations. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides and edges. The set consists of the following, all are the American New York editions published by D. Appelton and Company except for The life and letters of Charles Darwin published by John..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. The imagined two-way correspondence between the author, Dover, and Darwin about the surprising findings of modern genetics and the evolution of biological novelties, from genes to organisms, is both erudite and entertaining. In the process, Dover presents a startingly original..... More
London: Orion Publishing, 2000. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. 'Dear Mr Darwin - You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a hundred years after your death...Despite the gulf that separates us in time..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2009. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, this celebration of evolutionary development combines beautiful photographs of plants and animals with a clear, concept-based text to express Darwin's greatest discovery to..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Octavo, black and white illustrations, dustwrapper. For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. Emphasizing chance is an entire way of thinking about nature, and it is also one of the key ideas..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Los Angeles: Reed Books, (1978. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which..... More
Leiden: Brill, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1909. Octavo, inscribed by the author, publisher's cloth. More
New York: AtlasBooks, 2006. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. More
New York: Doubleday, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper. The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast, the gorilla, only to stumble straight into the centre of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution..... More
West Sussex: Princeton University Press, 1998. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper. Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago - Charles Darwin's..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999. second edition). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. "No other account of the Darwinian Revolution provides so detailed and sympathetic an account of the framework within which the scientific debates took place." Peter J. Bowler, Canadian Journal of History. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27289]... More
Washington: Smithsonian, (1989. reprint). Quarto, photographs, softcover. More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2012. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More