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Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. London: John Murray, 1872.
Price: US$444.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second issue, Freeman 1142. pp: vi, 374, 4 [publishers adverts dated November, 1872]. 7 heliotype plates, some folding. Recased in original dark green publisher's cloth, new end-papers matching originals. Internally very good.
Seller: Mark Westwood Books PBFA, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: 7 1/2" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Full gilt-stamped calf over boards, black and red spine labels, top edge gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled end papers, 374 pages, seven heliotype plates, three of which are foldout, illustrated with in-text images as well. First edition second issue with "that" misspelled on page 208, plates with Arabic numbers, lacks the publisher's ads at the rear. Front board is detached, wear at extremities, some foxing on versos of plates, staining on page that faces one of the folding plates, minor staining on plate itself. Previous owner's name label (Erastus Corning 2nd (1909-1983), Mayor of Albany, NY) on front paste-down. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015074.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles.. THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS.. John Murray, 1872.
Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. 2nd Issue. vi + 374pp. [Without the two leaves of integral adverts.] 21 ills., 7 heliotype plates including 3 folding (plates 1 and 2 with minor shaving to head affecting plate no. only). Ex.-lib. with remains of discreet ink stamp to verso of t.p., ink stamp to leading corner of one leaf, some light browning, light offsetting and browning to plates, rebound in modenr green half morocco with green cloth boards, gilt motifs and lettering to spine. Freeman 1142. This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment. 2nd Issue with 3 preliminary leaves and htat in the first line of page 208. Arabic numbering to the plates it seems probable that the Arabic set was the earlier [of the two states of plates]. US$629
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edn., 2nd issue. vi +374 + 4 (adverts) pp. Illus. with 7 heliotype plates, and 21 illus. within the text. 8vo. orig. cl. Bds. marked with signs of bookworm, edges rubbed particularly on spine, front hinge weak, occasional foxing, noticeable staining to margin of p. 255. Overall a good copy. Freeman, 1142.
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, 1872.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue with the "htat" misprint on the first line of page 208. Hardcover. 12mo - 5 x 7 ½. 374 pp. vi, 374 pp; 21 figs.; 7 helio type plates; 4-page catalogue of publisher's ads (dated November 1872). Fair. The boards are rubbed and soiling with fraying to the extremities. ½split to the tail of the spine. Notes in pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper and on the recto of the rear front endpaper. Previous owners name and date in ink on the title page. The text appears unmarked. The binding is shaken and split in areas; the front and rear hinges are cracked. Otherwise the binding is still intact.
Seller: R. Rivers Books, Running Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Darwin. Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London UK, 1872.
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition of Expression of the Emotion in Man and Animals with seven photographic plates and twenty one engraved illustrations. Original green cloth boards with bumping on front and rear boards. Gilt lettering with minor rubbing. Bumped and light wear to corners of the book. Brown end pages with small booksellers stamp. Loose binding although book holds together well. Clean contents with minimal foxing. A good find of a scarce book. 8vo 374 pp with 4 pages of publishers advertisements.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
DARWIN, Charles.. The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. , 1872.
Price: US$839.75 + shipping
Description: London: John Murray, 1872. 8vo. Orig. dark green cloth with gilt title to spine. (vi, 374, 4pp.). With 6 (ex 7) plates 3 of which are fold., and 21 text-illusts. 1st edition, first issue with publishers' adverts at end dated November 1872. Ex-library copy with rubbed spine extremities & rubbed corners, otherwise a good uncut copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the "htat" misprint on the first line of page 208. The author's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). Initially intended as a chapter in The Descent of Man, The Expression grew in length and was published separately in 1872. This book concerns the biological aspects of emotional behavior, and Darwin explores the animal origins of such human characteristics as the lifting of the eyebrows in moments of surprise and the raising of the upper lip in an aggressive sneer. Octavo: vi, 374 p. with 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), 21 textual figures, and 4 p. publisher's ads. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping, blind-stamped borders, and black endpapers. Some marginal creasing (not affecting the images) and minor foxing to the folding plates. Period previous owner's pencil signature to the top of the title page. The hinges are just starting and still quite sound. A bit of wear to the corners and tips; else very good.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: 7 3/4" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped green cloth over boards, 374 pages, plus 4 pages of ads dated November, 1872, illustrated with 7 heliotype plates (3 of which are foldout), doesn't have misprint "htat" on p. 208 which is found in the 2nd issue. Covers stained, wear along extremities, staining on text block edges, hinges cracked but still attached, scattered instances of foxing, pen and pencil marks (mostly pencil) scattered throughout, especially in Index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015120.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vi, 374 pp; 21 figs.; 7 heliotype plates; 4-page catalogue of publisher's ads (dated November 1872). Original cloth. Leaf 367/368 (in the index) poorly opened with knife, with large piece missing from blank vertical margin (see photo). Inner rear hinge shows a hairline crack (see photo; cracked inner hinges are the rule with Darwin's books published by John Murray). Indentations in vertical edge of rear cover (see photo). My photos show the flaws. I still consider this a Very Good copy, and will send photos upon request showing the spine and covers, which give a different impression of the condition of the copy. First Edition, Second Issue. Freeman 1142. Bookplate of Samuel Weiller Fernberger.
Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$901.78 + shipping
Description: , vi, 374, 4 pages, 7 plates of photographs and further illustrations in the text First Edition, issue 2 , rebacked with original spine laid down, small chips to top and tail of original spine, corners slightly rubbed, binding firm, inscription to title page, light marking to pages, good condition , green blindstamped cloth, gilt titles to spine, black endpapers , octavo, 19.5 cm x 13 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$939.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo; First edition, second issue with "htat" misprint on the first line of page 208. Publisher's green cloth with decorative borders in blind to front and rear boards, titles and decorations in gilt to spine, tight, light wear at spine ends, corners bumped; very good endpapers, ; inside excellent, with all the plate in very good condition with only very light spotting on the rear side of the plates. 374 pages followed by the publisher's ads dates November 1972. Name on title page: "Mme Eugene Dutreil", wife of Eugene Dutreil, French politician and owner of "Chateau de Bourgon" near Mayenne. this book was part of the library of the castle.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Darwin, Charles.. The Expression Of Emotions In Man And Animals.. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (19 cm); vi, 374 pages including 21 text illustrations, and seven photogravure plates, three of them folding, . Lacks half title and ads. In custom prize binding for the London School of Dental Surgery, polished red calf ruled in gilt, with gilt emblem of the school on upper board, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with green leather title label; marbled edges and endleaves, by Bickers and Son. Ownership autograph and ink stamp of Henry B. Mason (1855-1923). About fine. Seen by some as the origin of modern understandings of emotion, and incidentally the first English Language science book to be illustrated with photographs.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue with misprint "htat" on page 208. With 7 heliotype plates (3 folding) and 19 text-figures. Pp. [vi], 374, 4 (ads dated November 1872). 8vo. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) "completed his great cycle of evolutionary writings. It proved popular, not least because of its accessible subject matter and plentiful illustrations, including some of the earliest commercially reproduced photographs in a printed book" (ODNB). Freeman 1141 Dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Front hinge cracked but holding, some rubbing to extremities and rippling of cloth. Bookplate removed. Very good With 7 heliotype plates (3 folding) and 19 text-figures. Pp. [vi], 374, 4 (ads dated November 1872). 8vo First edition, second issue with misprint "htat" on page 208.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DARWIN Charles. The expression of the emotion in man and animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$1049.65 + shipping
Description: In-8°(190 x 130 mm), pp. VI, 374, 4, 7 tavole f.t in eliotipia di cui 3 ripiegate, 21 illustrazioni nel testo, legatura in tela editoriale verde con titolo in oro al dorso e cornice a secco ai piatti. Prima edizione in seconda tiratura riconoscibile dall'errore di pagina 208 che reca la parola 'that' scritta erroneamente 'htat' e a pagina 104 nell'ultima riga vi è la scritta 'In several languages of Europe' invece di 'In all the languages of Europe'. Il saggio di Darwin, 'L'espressione delle emozioni nell'uomo e negli altri animali' uscì un anno dopo l'Origine dell'uomo, nel 1872 ed ebbe un immediato successo di pubblico. Agli inizi del XIX secolo, la teoria psicologica predominante era l'associazionismo: la mente è una tabula rasa sino a quando non riceve delle impressioni dai sensi; queste, depositandosi nella memoria e associandosi fra loro, vanno a costituire la nostra vita mentale. Darwin, invece, tentò di spiegare i meccanismi cognitivi animali e umani, estendendo la teoria dellevoluzione per selezione naturale ai substrati biologici della cognizione. Si trattava di un programma scientifico interdisciplinare completamente nuovo che nel Novecento porterà alla nascita e allo sviluppo dell'etologia e delle neuroscienze. Nel saggio, l'autore fornisce dei dati atti a dimostrare che le espressioni dell'uomo, come degli altri animali, sono innate, sono un semplice prodotto dell'evoluzione, per cui molte espressioni che denotano paura, rabbia, stupore si ritrovano invariate non solo in uomini di diversa estrazione culturale o appartenenti a civiltà diverse, ma anche, in primati non umani o in altri animali; il fatto che il riso, ad esempio, sia molto simile nell'uomo e nello scimpanzé testimonia un'origine comune fra le due specie. Ma anche dal punto di vista metodologico il libro è di una sorprendente modernità: il primo a fare ricorso estesamente alla fotografia per scopi scientifici e il primo a basarsi su sondaggi prestampati, pratica ormai comune negli studi di psicologia. Allepoca le illustrazioni fotografiche venivano inserite nelle pagine del libro con un procedimento lungo che faceva lievitare i costi di pubblicazione. Darwin cercò tra i vari fotografi londinesi suggerimenti e metodi alternativi per riprodurre le fotografie e si ricordò di aver posato per un ritratto nel 1868 per il fotografo Ernest Edwards. Edwards aveva sviluppato un metodo di riproduzione fotomeccanica detto eliotipia che a differenza delle comuni stampe fotografiche permetteva la produzione in serie delle immagini che potevano così essere rilegate direttamente con le pagine del testo. Luso delleliotipia riduceva di molto i costi di produzione e permise a Darwin di includere un numero senza precedenti di tavole fotografiche e soprattutto di non affidarsi ad artisti che copiassero a mano le fotografie su lastre litografiche. Si scopre qui il Darwin della piena maturità, per metà scienziato e per metà filosofo, innovatore rivoluzionario eppure cauto, sempre attento a fondare su basi empiriche più che salde le sue speculazioni.
Seller: LIBRERIA XODO, Torino, Italy
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. London: John Murray, 1872.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with "htat" misprint on the first line of page 208. One of 7000 copies. Publisher's green cloth with decorative borders in blind to front and rear boards, titles and decorations in gilt to spine, green endpapers, seven Heliotype Plates numbered in Arabic. Very good or better with light wear to spine hinges and corners, a bit of toning to spine, some spotting to the plates on pages 180 and 264, a few small notes in pencil to a couple pages, and a touch of soiling to bottom edge of text block. Overall, a solid copy of Darwin's "forgotten masterpiece," with very well-preserved plates. Freeman 1142. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals expands on Darwin's theories raised in On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), arguing that there is an evolutionary explanation for the human expression of emotions. The book was originally intended by Darwin to be a chapter in The Descent of Man, but grew until it was necessary to publish the work separately. An influential text in the field of psychology, the book has also been described as "a pivotal turning point in the history of book illustration, right up there with Alice in Wonderland" (The Atlantic). With seven plates of heliotypes that represent various human emotions, The Expression of the Emotions was one of the first scientific books to include photographs. These photographs were provided by a handful of photographers and researchers, including Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Adolph Kindermann, George Charles Wallich, James Crichton-Browne, and Oscar Rejlander. Rejlander contributed nineteen of the thirty photographs in the book, including the crying baby photo, later dubbed "Ginx's baby," which became incredibly popular in its time. Interestingly, Darwin's research for the book prompted him to circulate one of the first scientific questionnaires, which he used to gauge people's ability to identify a handful of core emotions.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DARWIN Charles.. The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals.. 1872, 1872.
Price: US$1343.60 + shipping
Description: London: John Murray 1872. 8vo. Full dark green calf with gilt title to spine. (vi3744pp.). With 7 plates 3 of which are fold. and 21 text-illusts. 1st edition first issue with publishers' adverts at end dated November 1872. Some foxing otherwise a good uncut copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Octavo. vi, 374pp 4 ads. Bound in green cloth. 7 heliotype plates (complete) showing photographs of human emotion 3 of which are fold out. Plates are in nice condition without tearing or foxing. Additional in-text illustrations. Joints are cracked, stain on front cover, chips out of bottom of spine. Lacking half-title. First edition first state, Freeman F1142. A worn copy which would benefit from a rebinding.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$1523.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue. London: John Murray, 1872. Octavo (7 3/8" x 4 15/16", 188mm x 126mm). With 7 heliotype plates, of which 3 are folding. Bound in the publisher's green cloth. Spine gilt. Black-coated end-papers. Rubbed at the extremities, with small patches of wear. Bumped and cocked. Splits to the text-block at quires K, L and M. Split to the fold and some creases to pl. 6. Z2.3 unopened. A very good copy. Although Darwin's (1809-1882) magnum opus was the Origin of Species (1859), which sought to explain the mechanism of evolution of all species by natural selection, his reading public clamored for studied of humans. Indeed, the Origin was long mis-interpreted as implying that Homo sapiens was the terminus of all evolution. The Descent of Man (1871) sought specifically to satisfy this burning interest, and the present work addresses a particular red herring: that humans developed physical structures (muscles, eyebrows etc.) specifically for the expression of emotions. Darwin, though not a specialist in this particular field (he relies heavily on the work of Sir Charles Bell in particular), dispels the notion that there are muscles of expression; facial expressions in particular are common to a great many species and to many situations other than the display of emotion. The second issue of the work is distinguished by a few authorial corrections and additions, hastily made (since the first issue was published in November, and almost immediately sold out its run of 5,000 copies). Although Duchenne de Boulogne had pioneered the use of photography for the study of emotional expression (Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Paris: 1862), Darwin here employs it to fine effect. The plates are heliotypes, a variant of the collotype. The first (and one of the most delicate) method of commercial photographic dissemination, a glass plate was treated with light-sensitive gelatin, which would harden where exposed; the unexposed parts could be washed away, leaving dark channels in which ink would collect. The gelatin itself -- naturally quite friable -- could be used to print, but only for a few hundred impressions at most. Freeman 1142.
Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London, 1872.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Matches points found in Freeman 1141. Light wear to head and tail, and front edge of spine. Small spot of wear to fore-edge of front board. Small, closed tear at one corner of front board, along seam to front paste down. Hinge is starting to crack at front paste down but is still fully attached. Hinge cracked at pp. 161 and 177 but, still attached. Hinge cracked at back paste down page, six inches remain fully attached. Previous owner's name has been written on the first free end page. Small, black stain on copyright page. Stamp on black ink by a previous owner on title page. Otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Pp. (ii), vi, 374, 4 pp., including publisher's advertisements dated November 1872, with 7 heliotype plates (3 folding) and 19 text-figures. Publishers forest green cloth, spine is lettered in gilt and with gilt-decorations, cloth on the front and rear covers is blind-stamped with borders, 8vo. Freeman #1142. The fine heliotype plates are numbered in Roman numerals. This is the first edition of Darwins well-known work on animal behavior and communication theory. Darwin studied the movement of facial muscles and how they express emotion in man and animals. The heliotype photo plates are works of art and demonstrate a new breakthrough in Victorian photography. From the research collection of James L. Lack Jr. with his signature dated Boston, 1873 on the front blank endpaper. Later from the collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown from Illinois State University with his signature dated 2009 on front endpaper. Faint crack to paper only on the inner front hinge (the joint remains tight), faint foxing to front blank endpaper and to the title page, otherwise a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.
Seller: Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2898.59 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, with "that" spelled correctly on the first line of p. 208 (misspelled in the second issue). The Expression of the Emotions "appeared in November, and was awaited with such interest that over 5,000 copies were sold on the day of publication" (Huxley, p. 96). It was "written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment" (Freeman), a subject originally intended for The Descent of Man. Darwin invited the photographer Oscar Rejlander to make comparative studies of laughter and crying, obtained photographs of asylum inmates from the asylum director James Crichton-Browne, and consulted the French physiologist Guillaume Duchenne regarding his electrical research on the facial muscles. The plates are among the earliest commercially reproduced photographs in a scientific book. They are lettered with Roman numerals in this copy; another state is known in Arabic numerals, without priority of issue. Freeman suggests that the Arabic numeral plates were printed first, but notes that "the two states seem to occur at random in the two issues of the text, and Darwin's own copy, at Cambridge, has the Roman" (Freeman). Freeman 1141; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600. Leonard Huxley, Charles Darwin, 1921. Octavo. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, black endpapers. With 7 heliotype plates, of which 3 folding, woodcut illustrations within text, many full-page. With 4 pp. publisher's advertisements dated November 1872 at rear. W. H. Smith & Son blind stamp on front free endpaper verso, gift inscription in ink on recto dated 1880. Spine ends and corners bumped, spine panel a little cockled and small closed tear to cloth of same discreetly restored, small knock to outer edge of front cover, inner hinges repaired, free endpapers creased, contents generally clean, short closed tear at upper edge of leaf Q5 neatly repaired: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom