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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Darwin's scientific breakthrough discoveries: ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' DNA design and gold sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.Sized to fit: 8" x 5.4" x 1.5".
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a first American edition second state from 1860. Three Reviews. Some staining to pages and spine. Some light damage to edges. P/O's name on first page, otherwise, No Markings to text. Happy to provide more pictures or answer in questions!
Seller: Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, third issue. "Revised Edition" on title-page and three quotations to verso of half-title. Octavo (7 11/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 196 x 125 mm). [1]-432 pp. With folding chart. Original pebbled brown cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Green-coated endpapers. A very slight bit of fraying to top and bottom of the spine. Spine lightly sunned. Previous owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper. And an old ink gift inscription dated 1895 on front flyleaf. Some intermittent light foxing. Housed in a custom full black morocco clamshell. Overall a very good unrestored copy. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origin of Species was (and still is) one of the most controversial. The book caused an uproar immediately upon its publication, and many early copies were burned in protest of its author's ideas. In it "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Although published the same year as the second English edition, the text of the first American edition (with the two stereo reprints of the same year) is identical to the first English edition (Freeman 373), with the whale-bear story surviving intact. Freeman 376 ("the most important biological book ever written"). Grolier/Horblit 23b ("the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century"); Printing and the Mind of Man 344b (first edition). Freeman, Darwin, 379. Printing and the Mind of Man 344. HBS 68677. $6,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. On The Origin of Species. D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1860.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 432pp. First American edition, first issue with two quotes opposite the title page.Gilt lettering on the spine is darkened. Spine professionally rebacked, the original spine present. , Bound in pebbled brown cloth, brown endpapers, and the foldout chart is present and in excellent condition. The corners of the front panel show moderate wear. Prev. owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper and the title page. The hinges are tight, and the text block is clean. Overall a very well preserved copy of this classic work. Darwins theory argued that organisms gradually evolve through a process he called natural selection. In natural selection, organisms with genetic variations that suit their environment tend to propagate more descendants than organisms of the same species that lack the variation, thus influencing the overall genetic makeup of the species. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Darwin. Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1860.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first printing, first issue with only two reviews facing the title page. Top half-title and title page neatly trimmed by previous owner. Front endpaper nearly detached. Measuring approximately 8" x 5.25" with 432 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine. Moderate bumping around edges of both boards. Moderate fading to gilt lettering on spine. Moderate foxing to all edges of textblock. Top of half title page and title page neatly trimmed by previous owner. Front endpaper nearly detached. Interior pages lightly foxed. "Origin of Species" is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O2-74). First American Edition, First Printing, First Edition.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Darwin. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. D. Appleton, New York, 1860.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST PRINTING OF THE AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS IN HUMAN THOUGHT. 1st state of Darwin's classic, with two reviews facing the title page. Original brown pebbled cloth, stamped in blind. Restoration work to spine - this book was professionally rebacked, preserving most of the original spine which was laid down over newer brown cloth. The original brown coated paper endpapers were preserved. Although the repiar is visible, it was expertly done and the two cloths blend together nicely. The interior of the book is clean with only some minor foxing to the first and final few leaves. Two signatures in pencil of former owners, one of whom was E.L. Moseley, a noted Ohio teacher who founded the Science Department at Bowling Green State University. Housed in a custom open-ended slipcase. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF A MAJOR BOOK. Darwin's influence on modern thought is of lasting and sigificant importance.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DARWIN, CHARLES (1809-82). On the origin of species by means of natural selection. New York: D. Appleton, 1860. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue with two quotations facing the title. 8 vo. Orig. brown pebbled cloth, expertly rebacked with the orig. spine mounted on very closely matching pebbled cloth. Orig. brown endpapers preserved. 432 pp. A folding lithographed plate. Upper corners of covers a bit worn, but cloth otherwise fresh. Early circular embossed stamp in blank area of title: "S.C. Griggs & Co., Publishers Chicago." A very good, crisp copy. The first issue of the first American edition " of the most important biological book ever written " (Freeman). The official publication date of the Murray edition was November 24, 1859, while the Appleton edition appeared at New York on January 10, 1860. "By observing the special biology and geology of isolated islands during the cruise of the 'Beagle', Darwin's reflective mind saw, in the struggle for existence, that favourable variations would tend to help survival, with the resulting formation of new species. Fossil remains and the extinction of species, such as the dodo and solitaire birds, further supported such a position. This, the most important single work in science, brought man to his true place in nature." (Heralds of Science 199 - citing first edition). Freeman 377 & p.83.
Seller: Antiquarian Scientist, The, Westhampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Appleton, 1860. First American edition, fourth issue, with New Edition, Revised and Augmented by the Author on title page. 3 blurbs opp. title. Pages: xi, 440 [2]. Folding plate. Yellow endpapers cracked at rear but holding well. Laid flat a few places but binding tight. Mispagination of 116-21. Freeman 380. Original dark green blind stamped cloth light rubbed, slight fraying top spine. Ink gift inscription.; 432 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing in America, First Issue with two quotations facing the title-page. A copy with fine provenance, the Lee - Perkins - Shattuck - Peabody Family Copy. With folding diagram as called for. 8vo, publishers original brown cloth with central ornamental designs and border rules blocked in blind on both covers, the spine lettered in gilt. 432 pp. including index. A completely unrestored copy, internally fresh clean, the hinges strong and tight, the text-block in fine condition, covers unusually clean and well preserved, the fragile cloth of the spine panel with some chipping to the head and foot, the gilt mellowed. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING. RARE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH AND ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. The copy is unrestored and unsophisticated, the hinges still in unusually nice condition as is the cloth of the covers. Darwin's Revolutionary Masterwork, in which he not only "drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken." [PMM) Together with Copernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS and Newton's PRINCIPIA, it is deemed one of the three greatest and most important scientific works ever penned. "The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" and "The most important biological work ever written" (Horblit, Freeman). Darwin's elaboration of the theory of natural selection laid the groundwork for the controversy over the evolution of man, and with only slight modification by such scientists as Stephen Jay Gould, Darwin's ideas remain the umbra under which most current biological research is conducted. Darwin had intended the book to be an abstract of his 'big book' on transmutation, of which only the first part (Variation Under Domestication, 1868) was published in his lifetime. The book comes from the Lee- Perkins - Shattuck - Peabody collection, a family line that is famous throughout New England.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with two quotations facing title page instead of three. A wonderful copy bound in the publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine with restoration to the spine. The book has the original brown endpapers with light wear to the spine and boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing, first issue with two quotes opposite the title page. 432 pp. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth decorated in blind, titles in gilt on the spine, original coated brown endpapers, folding chart intact. A Near Fine copy, expertly rebacked, light rubbing to cloth, small stain to edge, contemporary ownership inscription to front paste down and title page, light foxing and occasional offsetting to contents. An immensely influential work, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, in which Darwin postulates that species evolve over the course of generations through natural selection.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$12827.62 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first issue, of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection, which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory. The text is that of the first edition published in London the previous year. The first four issues of the first US edition are notable for being the only editions of the Origin, save the first British edition in 1859, to contain Darwin's "whale-bear" theory, in which he speculated that a bear scooping insects from the water may evolve into a whale-like creature. The hypothesis was seen as absurd at the time and was seized upon by Darwin's critics to ridicule and criticize both the scientist and his evolutionary theory. It was removed from the second UK edition onwards on the advice of Charles Lyell and Richard Owen; however, Darwin insisted that he had "always regretted that I followed this advice, for I still think the view quite reasonable. I still maintain that there is no special difficulty in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree useful to its changing habits" (Freeman, Companion, p. 301). Aside from the US issues, the whale-bear story did not appear again until the end of copyright. This copy contains extensive contemporary pencil annotations to endleaves and contents demonstrating close reading of the text, along with charming marginal pencil drawings of birds and two pages of notes laid in, referencing the works of naturalists such as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Freeman 377. R. B. Freeman, Charles Darwin: A Companion, 1978. Octavo. Original brown pebble-grain publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, covers framed with centrepiece in blind, brown coated endpapers. Folding chart (formerly bound opposite p. 108, sometime re-guarded facing half-title). Spine ends discreetly restored, wear to corners, spine panel unfaded and cloth presenting nicely, inner hinges neatly repaired, contents foxed, a couple of gatherings proud, cords occasionally visible but book block remaining firm: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$13225.00 + shipping
Description: Folding chart, 8 x 5, pebbled greenish cloth, 432 pp with index, covers rubbed, extremities professionally repaired with matching green cloth, spine dull, inner hinges starting to crack, bookplates (front: Detroit architect Theodore Hinchman; rear: handwritten Detroit bookseller plate), first 16 pp insect damaged at lower fore corner, water stained at lower margins throughout, folding plate browned, contents toned with scatered spotting, couple of ink marks on p147 else a decent, collectible copy of the FIRST AMERICAN ED, FIRST STATE (with only two notices opposite title page).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, first printing. First issue with two quotes opposite the title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spine, fold out chart intact.Very Good with moderate rubbing to cloth, shallow wear at spine ends and rubbing through at corners and bottom edge. Short splits started at hinge ends of free endpapers, front free endpaper creased and worn along top edge. Former owner name to front pastedown and first blank sheet. Contents foxed and a handful of several small, light marginal pencil notations present. A bright and well-kept copy, unsophisticated and uncommon to find free of rebinding, restoration or repair. An immensely influential work, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, in which Darwin postulates that species evolve over the course of generations through natural selection.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Description: Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Faces in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on the verso of the half-title. One of only 1,500 copies printed. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. Folding lithographed diagram (speciation tree) facing p, 108. Original dark brown bead-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Original dark brown coated endpapers. A minor amount of foxing throughout. Page 70 with previous owner's marginal notes in red pencil. A small blindstamp to front flyleaf. Overall a near fine copy of the extremely scarce first issue of the first American edition. Housed in a custom black morocco clamshell. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origina of Species was (and still is) one of the most controversial. In it "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Although published the same year as the second English edition, the text of the first American edition (with the two stereo reprints of the same year) is identical to the first English edition (Freeman 373), with the whale-bear story surviving intact. Freeman 377. Grolier/Horblit 23b ("the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century") and Printing and the Mind of Man 344b (describing the 1859 first edition). HBS 68790. $20,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This is the First Issue of the American Edition. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth with minor wear to the edges. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this First Edition in collector's condition. We buy Darwin First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.