Kensington and N. P: Argyll Lodge and Balmoral (stationery), n.d. and 28 September 1855. Preserved Leaves of Mull. The first stating that he will send specimens of the ores and the [?] Leaves of Mull to Glasgow for the Museum, the leaves only being “furnished on loan as the specimens... Read More
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New York: HaFiner Press, 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. Read More
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London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections ("Tenth Thousand"). 'Survival of the Fittest'. Fifth edition in publisher's cloth of one of the great landmarks in the history of science. "The fifth edition of 1869 was of 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this... Read More
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Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More
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1925. A PIRATE SETS SAIL ON WILLIAM BEEBE'S EXPEDITION. Under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, the Arcturus departed New York and sailed via the Sargasso Sea, the Cocos Islands and finally to the Galapagos. Dickerman's official capacity was as assistant artist to the expedition, a role which... Read More
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Boston and London: Ginn, The Athenaeum Press, 1900. First edition. Read More
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Hawarden Castle, Chester: July 11, 1881. An answer to an attack on him by Thomas Huxley. Gladstone was Prime Minister four different times. WITH: Signature of Palmerton laid in. Read More
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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
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New York: Norton, [1983]. First edition. With reviews annotrated by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More
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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
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1934. First edition, with errata slip. Read More
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Jany 18, 1875. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night..." (Desmond). Indeed, it was Fayrer, who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley... Read More
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Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne: Dec. 9, 1892. Huxley (1825-1895), the biologist and influential advocate of Darwin’s theories, writes to the English publisher Edward Arnold to decline to take up an unspecified project: "I am sorry to say that I cannot undertake to do anything more than I have in hand... Read More
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. First American edition. Read More
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New York: Appleton, 1872. Read More
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Read More
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Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in the north of France. He was the youngest of eleven children in a family with a centuries-old tradition of military service; his father and several of his brothers were... Read More
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[Twickemham, UK]: Adamantine Press, [1998]. First edition. "The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection brings together the... Read More
Price: $50
New York: Appleton and Company, 1864. First American edition. Henry Cabot Lodge's Copy. Read More
Price: $150
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