Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent,...

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1903. Read More about Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the...

Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More about The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an...

New York: Norton, [1977]. First edition. GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB. First book by Gould, with the ownership signature of Ashley Montagu on the front flyleaf. Montagu’s blurb is at the top of the back cover: “Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most brilliant of..... Read More about Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History

New York: Norton, [1980]. First edition, erratum laid in. Ashley Montagu's copy, with his tearsheet of his review in Nature (4 December 1980) loosely inserted, with other clippings of reviews. Read More about The Panda's Thumb

New York: Appleton, 1872. Read More about More Criticism on Darwin and Administrative Nihilism

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American Edition. Mivart, an American, was pro-Darwin, converted to Catholicism and became anti-Darwin. Read More about On the Genesis of Species

New Brunswick: Published by J. Simpson and Co. and William and Whiting, New York, Printed by L. Deare, 1810. “Second Edition...Enlarged and Improved”. The most important Pre-Darwinian American essay for the genetic unity of mankind, rejecting the theory of separate creation of the different races. Smith’s Essay was first published..... Read More about An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are...

Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1862. First edition. WELCKER (1822-1897) was the first determine the total blood volume and the volume of the normal red blood cells. Read More about Untersuchungen über Wachsthum und Bau des menschlichen Schädels. Erster Theil, Allgemeine...