Darwin, Charles
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: John Murray, 1882. Sixth edition (twenty-fourth thousand), 8vo, original green cloth, half-title, folding lithographic diagram, bookplate, related ownership inscription dated 1903 to title-page, pencilled annotation to half-title, occasional marginal pencil-markings throughout;
Thomson, J. J. Electricity and Matter. London: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1904. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, pencilled ownership inscriptions, mottling to endpapers;
Whitehead, A. N. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge: University Press, 1919. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, pencilled ownership inscription;
Russell, Bertrand. The Analysis of Mind. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1921. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, pencilled ownership inscription dated 1921 to front pastedown, manuscript notes laid in, sunning to spine and edges of rear board;
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition, fifty-fifth thousand, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, binding dust-soiled, spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, finger-soiling to lower margins, Z1 with small tear to lower inner corner, ownership inscription dated 1877 to title-page;
Idem. Rhyme? And Reason? Ninth Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt (covers mottled);
Yeats, W. B. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Second edition, 8vo, original blue decorated cloth gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, frontispiece with tissue-guard, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page (7)
Provenance
From the library of the Gordon family of Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland.