Skip to content

The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex by Darwin, Charles - 1871

by Darwin, Charles

Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex by Darwin, Charles - 1871

The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
London: John Murray, 1871. viii, 424, 16; viii, (2), 476, 16, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo (195x125mm), orig. cloth, gt, recased retaining orig. endpapers, neat repair to head of spine of Vol. II, hinges neatly reinforced; some wear to corners + spine ends, repairs to heads of both spines, joints rubbed/repaired, inner hinges neatly reinforced. Some foxing to free endpapers, half-titles and last pages of ads. A good set. Book plate of J.J. Seekings, Holmhurst, Barnwood, Gloucester, (c. 1839-1899) owner of a marine engineering works near Gloucester Docks during the 1870s-80s.. 1st edition, 1st issue. 'The word "evolution" occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition …. before its appearance in the sixth edition of "The origin of species" in the following year' - Freeman (1977), p. 129. 2 vols: viii, 424, 16 (publisher's ads dated Jan 1871); viii, (2), 476, 16 (publisher's ads dated Jan 1871). [Freeman 937]..
  • Bookseller Pemberley Natural History Books GB (GB)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher John Murray
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1871
  • Keywords ABABOOKFAIR; ABABOOKFAIR 2019; Anthropology; Darwin; Evolution

We have 245 copies available starting at £2.82.

The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and...
More Photos

The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Not Described in the Work of F. Andrew Michaux... (Three Volumes in Two)

by Nuttall, Thomas

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Chanute, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£2,007.50

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1857. Half Leather - Hardbound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Two volumes re-bound by Talin Bookbindery of Cape Cod, with green leather spine and corners, and green cloth over boards; Raised spine bands with gilt stamped lettering and decoration; Housed in matching custom two compartment slipcase; All edges gilded; 131 hand colored plates; Ex-Library with institutional stamps on title pages and verso, though with NO other library markings; Now rebound; Covers and slipcase remain Fine and exceptionally attractive; Moisture stains are seen on the first ten leaves near heel; Plate 1 is uniformly just a little darkened, and there are a couple of small tears in margins; Illustration remains bright; All other plates remain clean and very bright;
Item Price
£2,007.50
The Complete Writings of Thomas Say on the Entomology of North America (Two Volumes)
More Photos

The Complete Writings of Thomas Say on the Entomology of North America (Two Volumes)

by Say, Thomas [Edited By John L. Le Conte]

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Edition, Thus
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Chanute, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£2,007.50

Show Details

Description:
New York: Bailliere Brothers, 1859. First Edition, Thus . Half Leather - Hardbound. Very Good/No Jacket. 412 pages, plus 52 hand colored plates, plus ads & 814 pages, plus one plate; Burgundy dyed leather over spines and corners, with raised spine bands, black leather spine labels, and gilt stamped lettering; Green cloth cover covers; Top edges are gilded; Covers are a little rubbed and scuffed, and show light wear at corners and along edges; Contents show scattered mostly light foxing and occasional smudges; Volumes remain tight and are generally very clean; Plates have been collated and are all present; Text is mostly un-opened.
Item Price
£2,007.50
Plate LXV Little Harvest Mouse. Mus Minimus, Aud. & Bach. Males & Females. Natural Size.
More Photos

Plate LXV Little Harvest Mouse. Mus Minimus, Aud. & Bach. Males & Females. Natural Size.: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

by Audubon, John James & Bachman, Rev. John .

  • Used
Condition
Used - Very Good Condition with original hand-coloring.
Edition
Imperial Folio Edition
Binding
Unknown
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Langley, Washington, United States
Item Price
£2,730.20

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia:: Audubon, J.J.,, 1845.. Imperial Folio Edition. Very Good Condition with original hand-coloring. . Original hand-colored lithograph by JT Bowen after painting by John James Audubon, FRS, FLS. Imperial Folio; 213/8 x 27 3/8 inches. Very Good condition; toning to extreme edges of sheet. 1/2 inch chip on top edge. Archivally double matted and framed in 1 inch gilt moulding. A classic Audubon still life: a charming composition of two mice nibbling on a corncob in a harvested field. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia c.1845-48) represents the culmination of a lifelong dream held by America's most prominent naturalist and visionary, John James Audubon (1785-1851). Following the completion of his magnum opus, the Double Elephant Folio Edition of Birds of America, c. 1824-38, Audubon was at liberty to pursue a project close to his heart, large scale portraits of all of North America's native animals. Audubon's effort to render America… Read More
Item Price
£2,730.20
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
More Photos

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
IVER, United Kingdom
Item Price
£375.00

Show Details

Description:
London: John Murray, 1875. vii, 208 + 32, 13 woodcuts to text. 8vo. HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, minor wear to extemities, inner hinges cracked but firm; browning to margin of half-title; college book-plate to endpaper (no other markings). Very good copy.. Second edition, revised. First appearance in book form, and significantly enlarged (the first edition appeared in 1865 in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London). 32-page publisher's advertisements dated January, 1875 bound at rear.Freeman 836..
Item Price
£375.00
EXPLANATIONS: A SEQUEL TO VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION
More Photos

EXPLANATIONS: A SEQUEL TO "VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION"

by Anonymous [Robert Chambers]

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Item Price
£3,613.50

Show Details

Description:
John Churchill, London, 1845. 8vo in original red cloth stamped in blind with gilt titling to spine. 198 pp. followed by 8 pp. of publisher's ads. First edition of 1,500 copies, subsequently appended to later editions of Vestiges. VG. Corners and spine ends bumped; small nick to edge of rear board. Light soiling to boards. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Faint foxing to endmatter and very sparsely in the text, which is free of writing or any other markings. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
Item Price
£3,613.50
The Fruits Of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures, And full descriptions On All The...
More Photos

The Fruits Of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures, And full descriptions On All The Choicest Varieties Cultivated In The United States

by Hovey, Charles Mason

  • Used
Condition
Used - Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. 2 vols. Fine
Edition
First edition
Binding
Unknown
Quantity Available
1
Seller
ardsley, New York, United States
Item Price
£2,609.75

Show Details

Description:
New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. leather_bound. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. 2 vols. Fine. 100 & 96 pages. 8vo, 26 x 18 cm. Ninety-six chromolithograph plates [with tissue guards] by Boston's William Sharp & Son, plus a plethora of woodcuts of fruit, flowers and trees. "He published also two complete volumes and part of a third entitled FRUITS OF AMERICA, purposing to give `richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States.' This work was issued in parts from 1847 to 1856, though the title page of the first complete volumes bears the date 1852. The volumes are handsomely printed printed and contain plates.......sketched from nature by Hovey himself." [see: DNB, Vol. 9, p.272]. Hovey also made the greatest single contribution to horticulture in the origination of the Hovey strawberry -- the first North American variety produced by a definite plan of breeding. NISSEN 941. REESE #20. Ex-library, no exterior… Read More
Item Price
£2,609.75
A Natural History of Spiders, and Other Insects
More Photos

A Natural History of Spiders, and Other Insects

by Albin, Eleazar

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Chanute, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£3,212.00

Show Details

Description:
London, 1736. First Edition . Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. 4to. 76 pages, plus 53 copper engraved plates, most of which are hand colored. Original leather covers, with gilt decoration along edges are a little pitted, though generally good. Rebacked with leather covers over spine, which overlaps slightly with original decoration on boards. Gilt lettering on spine. End leaves are a little darkened and show various penciled/inked marks. Hinges with modern reinforcement. There is a little separation of two signatures of leaves, though paper remains tight. First four leaves are a little darkened and show a little offsetting; Volume is complete and otherwise in very good condition. Plates with life size representations of spiders are stunning.
Item Price
£3,212.00
Lahore to Yarkand.  Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed By the...
More Photos

Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed By the Expedition of 1870, Under T. D. Forsyth, Esq., C.B.

by Henderson, George and Allan O. Hume

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good+
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Chanute, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£2,810.50

Show Details

Description:
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1873. First Edition . Half Leather - Hardbound. Good+/No Jacket. 4to. John Gerrard Keulemans. 370 pages, plus 26 heliotype images on 16 leaves, plus folding, color, map (now backed on linen), plus three charts of which two are colored, plus 32 hand colored lithographic plates after Keulmans, and 6 hand colored botanical plates. Exquisite period binding in half leather with raised spine bands, gilt stamped lettering and decoration, and red/green leather spine labels. Marbled paper over boards. Binding shows a couple of very slight scuffs, though remains nearly perfect. Library stamps on blank sides of plates, etc, as well as blank space on printers page and dedication page, though no other library markings. Some foxing on first and last leaves, though plates remain in very good condition.
Item Price
£2,810.50
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
More Photos

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
IVER, United Kingdom
Item Price
£375.00

Show Details

Description:
London: John Murray, 1875. vii, 208 + 32, 13 woodcuts to text. 8vo. HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, minor wear to extemities, inner hinges cracked but firm; browning to margin of half-title; college book-plate to endpaper (no other markings). Very good copy.. Second edition, revised. First appearance in book form, and significantly enlarged (the first edition appeared in 1865 in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London). 32-page publisher's advertisements dated January, 1875 bound at rear.Freeman 836..
Item Price
£375.00
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri
More Photos

The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry

by Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Very Good+
Edition
1th limited (500)
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Item Price
£2,171.25

Show Details

Description:
(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive transparent dust jacket. See pics for overall condition.Blanc front and end papers, half title page, frontispiece with clean protective tissue, title page, dedication page in English and one in Farsi, xxiv and 195 pp and illustrated with 25 illustrations of Persian paintings, animals, and original ms. Quaritch printer's device to last leaf (see pics).Notes: - Wood; p. 519; Zimmer p. 623. One of 500 copies only. The author was a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (1772-1834) and a respected authority on… Read More
Item Price
£2,171.25
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780691023694
ISBN 10
0691023697
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Simi Valley, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£2.82

Show Details

Description:
Princeton University Press, 1981-08-01. Paperback. Good. 1.8000 7.6000 5.4000.
Item Price
£2.82
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
Condition
Used - Good
ISBN 13
9780691023694
ISBN 10
0691023697
Quantity Available
3
Seller
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£6.48

Show Details

Description:
Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Item Price
£6.48
Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by charles-darwin

  • Used
Condition
Used - Very Good
ISBN 13
9780760763117
ISBN 10
0760763119
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Frederick, Maryland, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£6.18

Show Details

Description:
Barnes & Noble. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Item Price
£6.18
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
Condition
Used - Good
ISBN 13
9780691023694
ISBN 10
0691023697
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Frederick, Maryland, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£6.61

Show Details

Description:
Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Item Price
£6.61
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
Condition
Used - Good
ISBN 13
9780691023694
ISBN 10
0691023697
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£5.97

Show Details

Description:
Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Item Price
£5.97
No image available

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£14.45

Show Details

Description:
A.L. Burt. Good. Hardcover. Part of the home library collection. Spine sunned, otherwise clean and unmarked. .
Item Price
£14.45
No image available

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Rev. Ed.) (World Famous Books)

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Near Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£13.65

Show Details

Description:
New York: Merrill and Baker. Decorative Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 672 pp. Rubbing to the cover edges; the spine covering is slightly bowed. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Many pages are uncut.
Item Price
£13.65
No image available

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Darwin, Charles

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
J No Dust Jacket
Edition
Second Edition Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Vashon, Washington, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£14.90

Show Details

Description:
New York [ca. 1900/ No date]: American Publishers Corporation. Second Edition Used. H Hardcover. Very Good. In red cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 705pp. A solid turn of the century 'pirate' edition printed ca. 1900. (light shelfwear, dulling and fading to cloth, name to endpaper).
Item Price
£14.90
No image available

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

by Charles Darwin

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
2d ed., rev. and augm
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£14.95

Show Details

Description:
D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1903. 2d ed., rev. and augm . Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Rebound in red library cloth. 688 pages 20 cm. "Authorized edition." Title page has bottom half torn off.
Item Price
£14.95
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton Science Library)

by May, Robert M

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780691023694
ISBN 10
0691023697
Quantity Available
1
Seller
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£10.47

Show Details

Description:
Paperback. Good.
Item Price
£10.47
Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey

Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River

by John B. Wyeth

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Limited Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£16.06

Show Details

Description:
YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
Item Price
£16.06
Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe

Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe

by Alwyne Wheeler

  • Used
  • good
Condition
Used - Good
ISBN 13
9780723220640
ISBN 10
0723220646
Quantity Available
1
Seller
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£15.99

Show Details

Description:
London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
Item Price
£15.99
ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
More Photos

ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS

by Simon Seymour

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£13.25

Show Details

Description:
New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
Item Price
£13.25
Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

by Engle, Joanna

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
None Issued
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780394856438
ISBN 10
0394856430
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Salem, Oregon, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£20.08

Show Details

Description:
Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
Item Price
£20.08
The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The...

The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar

by WHITE, Rev. Gilbert

  • Used
  • good
Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Arrington, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£21.68

Show Details

Description:
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
Item Price
£21.68
Winter - Notes from Montana
More Photos

Winter - Notes from Montana

by Bass, Rick

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Moab, Utah, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£20.08

Show Details

Description:
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
Item Price
£20.08
Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
More Photos

Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale

by Peter Oikarinen

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
1st edition, 1st printing
Quantity Available
1
Seller
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£25.70

Show Details

Description:
Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
Item Price
£25.70
Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
More Photos

Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica

by Cathy de Moll

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780873519885
ISBN 10
0873519884
Quantity Available
1
Seller
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£28.10

Show Details

Description:
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015. Single volume, hardcover with dust jacket, xv [1], 282pp [6], illustrated with maps and b&w photos. First Edition, First Printing. Author signature and inscription on Author page. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. Near fine unread book. Dust jacket showing light signs of shelf wear. Foreword, cover photo and all expedition photos by Will Steger. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
Item Price
£28.10
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Reprinted from the sixth London edition with all additions and corrections

by Charles Darwin

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Reprint Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Salida, Colorado, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£32.12

Show Details

Description:
New York: A.L. Burt, n.d.. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The covers are quarter bound leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The covers show rubbing which enhances the period appearance. Endpapers are marbled, gilt top edge, clean contents and a tight binding. This edition was part of the "Burt's Library of the World's Best Books" series and, unlike the typical A.L. Burt reprint, is bound in a high quality binding.
Item Price
£32.12
Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 916: Uvularia Chinensis, Brown-Flowered Uvularia

Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 916: Uvularia Chinensis, Brown-Flowered Uvularia

by Curtis, William

  • Used
Condition
Used - Very good +
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Wilmington, Vermont, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£28.10

Show Details

Description:
London: T. Curtis, 1806. Very good +. This is a hand colored copper plate engraving. The print measures 5.5 x 9.25 inches, with a plate mark of 4.5 x 7.75. It is a beautiful decorative antique print expertly colored and beautifully composed. This particular plate has been trimmed at the rough edge. Curtis' work was the first study of British flora, and artists contributing to the opus included James Sowerby, Sydenham Teak Edwards, Francis Sansom and William Kilburn. "The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the subsequent name Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Each of the issues contains a description, in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Many plants received their first publication on the pages, and the description given was enhanced by the keenly detailed illustrations. The first issue, in… Read More
Item Price
£28.10