Weismann, August; Darwin, Charles (Prefatory Notice); Meldola, Raphael (Editor & Translator). Studies in the Theory of Descent (2 Volumes). Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1882.

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Description: vxxvi, 400, 401-729 pp. 8 color plates (2 in VOlume I, 6 in Volume II). 8vo. Ex-library with brown leather spines with gold embossed titling and call numbers at base, brown cloth cover boards with "City of Sheffield Public Libraries" blind stamped in circle on each cover board. Card pocket on front pastedown of each volume. Blue library stamp throughout each volume.

Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.

WEISMANN, August, Raphael Meldola ( Edits ), Charl. STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT. IN TWO VOLUMES.. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,, London,, 1882.

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Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xxxvi, 400; [729], 32. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated throughout, with eight colour plates. Slight rubbing at hinges and spine ends with neat Glasgow university library stamps on verso title pages, otherwise a decent, clean, VG set.

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Weismann, Dr. August. Studies in the Theory of Descent. With Notes and Additions by the Author. Translated and Edited, with Notes, by Raphael Medola, F.C.S. With a prefatory Notice by Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S.. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington., 1882.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington., 1882. 1st Edition . Very Good. Two volumes bound in dark green cloth. Gilt tiling to spines, boards with blind-embossed decorative borders. Black endpapers. 800+ pages overall including prelims, 8 cromolithographed plates on card, of butterflies and caterpillars printed by J.A.Hofmann of Wurzburg. The publisher details at feet of spines somewhat dulled, rear board of volume 1 dulled after partial restoration of, presumably, damp bleaching.Slight foxing spotting to page edges with a very few leaves at adjacent to endpapers slightly browned. Volume 2 largely uncut, top edges of Vol.1 show no signs of incompetent cutting. Inscribed to Charles Pearce Esq. by William H.Holt, Christmas '84. An attractive, sound, hardly-used set.

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WEISMANN, August [Friedrich Leopold] [1834-1914].. Studies In The Theory Of Descent.With Notes And Additions By The Author Translated And Edited, With Notes, By Raphael Meldola.With A Prefatory Notice By Charles Darwin.. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882., 1882.

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Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxxvi, 400; 1 p.l., [401]-729, [1]errata. lacking half-titles. 8 chromolithographed plates. original black-stamped & gilt-lettered cloth (extremities & joints bit rubbed & frayed, 1 gathering sprung, errata crossed out & all corrections entered in ms. by former owner). small book label on title of F.J.Cole. First Edition of the English Translation by Raphael Meldola, with preface by Charles Darwin & a new Engish preface by Weismann (first published in German at Leipzig in 1875-76). [The German zoologist's] most influential contribution to biological thought was his theory of the continuity of the germ plasm, an explanation of heredity and development. He maintained that the germ plasm, the substance of heredity, was transmitted from generation to generation, distinguishing it from the somatoplasm; he also was foremost in his day in denying that acquired characters were inherited. Keeping abreast of current researches on the cell and the growing understanding of the role of the nucleus and the chromosomes in inheritance, Weismann modified the theory of germinal continuity. Cytology repeatedly confirmed the phenomena the existence of which he had presumed with theoretical considerations. He was a strong defender of Darwin's theory of evolution and a leader among Neo-Darwinists arguing for the sufficiency of natural selection.[In the present work he] treated the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies and questions of evolution and heredity.[and] proceeded to construct his own theory of heredity rather than accept Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis.he decided that acquired characters could not be inherited, for to become inheritable, changes would have to affect the germ plasm itself.". (DSB) Freeman 3932.

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WEISMANN, August [DARWIN, Charles]. Studies in the Theory of Descent. With Notes and Additions by the Author . . . with a Prefatory Notice by CHARLES DARWIN. Translated and Edited, with Notes, by Raphael Meldola. 2 Volumes.. London: Sampson Low, etc., 1882., 1882.

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Description: xxxvi, 1 leaf, 400 pp; 1 leaf [title page], pp. 401-729, [1, errata]; 8 color plates; 20 page catalogue of John Grant Bookseller, Edinburgh. Original cloth. Rubbed at top & bottom of spine. Corners of covers slightly worn. But still a very nice set. Near Fine. Charles Darwin's "Prefatory Notice" is pp. v-vi. Freeman 1414. English translation of August Weismann's Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875-1876).

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