Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections to 1872. (Thirty-Third Thousand). London: John Murray, 1888. 8vo, original green cloth, half-title, folding lithographic plate, 32 pp. advertisements, tips slightly bumped and worn, folding plate irregularly folded and with small nick to head of one fold [Freeman 131];
Idem. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy. Tenth Thousand. London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo, contemporary morocco prize binding, all edges gilt, prize plate to front pastedown, joints and tips rubbed, spotting to blanks [Freeman 10, 'from stereos of [the 1852] edition, but with new preliminaries and a postscript'];
Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest. Illustrated by Keith Henderson. London: Duckworth, 1926. One of 165 copies signed by the artist, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, double-page plates and decorative headpieces throughout (probably wood-engravings), partly unopened, dust jacket sunned and chipped;
Idem. The Naturalist in La Plata. London: Chapman and Hall, Ld., 1895. Third edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 4 plates, illustrations in text, bookplate;
Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1895. Seventh edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece, plates (counted in the pagination) and text-illustrations