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CHARLES DARWIN. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.SBeagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. Tenth thousand.
London,John Murray 1860
Octavo, 12.o x 19.8cm, fine original blind stamped green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London with their printed label, spine lettered gilt, pp.xv + (1) + 519 + 32 adverts dated December 1861, with the Postscript on p.vii, woodcuts of a lizard on p.385, outline of the Barrier Reef on p.471 and reef on p.473, a fine copy.

Freeman no.20.
First published separately in 1839 from vol III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the voages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle. This 1860 printing is the final definitive text. Charles Darwin's "first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been… Read More

DYGASINSKI, Adolf. Logica podlug Johna Stuarta Milla. Warsaw, Przeglad Tygodniowy 1879
Quarto, contemporary Polish quarter calf and cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.354,ii, extremities with wear, hinges weakened, paper browned due to paper stock, binder's label inside front cover of E.Wolski in Radom.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a Polish Millian logic, summarized, written and compiled by Adolf Dygasinski [1830-1902]. He was an educationist, journalist and writer of short stories, and he was acquainted with Positivism. "Western liberals – particularly English liberals – were extolled within a specifically Polish debate – Adam Wislicki, the editor and publisher of the positivists' organ Przeglad Tygodniowy [The Weekly Review] hoped to shift attention from 'high politics' [the abstract problems of international diplomacy] towards 'little politics'." Mill followed closely events in Poland in the 1860's, as his Letter on Poland published in the Penny Newsman of March 15 1863 proves. This work… Read More