Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
GENERAL - Evolution
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Body heat: temperature and life on earth.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More
Hominoid evolution and climatic change in Europe, volume two: phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more..... More
Evolution: the history of an idea.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2003. third edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: the history of an idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has..... More
The skeletal biology of earlier human populations.
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
The making of the fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of the DNA record left by three billion years of..... More
The lopsided ape.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, graphs, owner's signature, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Cave life: evoloution and ecology.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The evolution of man and society.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Octavo, dustwrapper. More
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.
Adelaide: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's quarter leather, limited to 1500 copies. More
On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Adelaide: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's quarter leather, limited to 1500 copies A fine modern edition of The Origin and an ideal reading copy. More
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
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
The voyage of the Beagle.
Danbury: Grolier Enterprises, 1980. Octavo, blindstamped rexine. More
The blind watchmaker.
Harlow: Longman Scientific & Technical, (1986. first edition), Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Climbing Mount Improbable.
London: Viking, 1996. Octavo, black and white illustrations, Slightly used dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
The selfish gene.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1976. first edition), Octavo, illustrations, owner's signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Analysis of evolutionary processes: the adaptive dynamics approach and its applications.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Quantitative approaches to evolutionary biology traditionally consider evolutionary change in isolation from an important pressure in natural selection: the demography of coevolving populations. In this book, Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi have written the first comprehensive book on Adaptive Dynamics..... More
Genetics and the origin of species.
New York: Columbia University Press, (1959. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy. The world may have changed dramatically but Dobzhansky's classic is still one of the great contributions to 20th century biology and a cornerstone of any collection of historical biology. More
Dear Mr. Darwin: letters on the evolution of life and human nature.
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
Dear Mr. Darwin: letters on the evolution of life and human nature.
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
Human origins.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, signature, publisher's cloth. More
Evolutionary theory: a hierarchical perspective.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and..... More
How the zebra got its stripes: and other Darwinian just so stories.
London: Profile Books, 2016. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations on the African savannah, Leo Grasset offers some answers to..... More
Evidence of evolution.
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