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Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition. 1897 on title page. Table of principle additions and corrections to the first edition included after the list of illustrations. Volume I only of a two volume set. No marks. No odor. Hinges are fine. Dark red leather spine and fore-corners. Marbled boards. Gold top ends. Bright gold lettering on the spine. 473 pages.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover. 1897. VOLUME 2. EX-LIB w/usual markings. Previous owner's name on FFEP, otherwise page faces clean. Red quarter leather with marbled boards. Mild to moderate edgewear/scuffs to book . Spine cap with chipping and short tear to head of spine edge. Gilt top edge. Binding solid. 495 pp.
Seller: Eastburn Books, Albany, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Marbled boards with maroon leather spine and corners. Leather is rubbed along spine, top and bottom of spine and corners of binding. Edges of binding rubbed. Top Fore edge gilt. 494pp. Indexed. Content is clean, bright and sound with paper lightly tanned.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Very Good. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering, worn at head and tail. A nice set.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Charles Darwin. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. D. Appleton, 1897.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes 8vo in 3/4 burgundy, marbled boards. Bindings tight and square, hinges firm, corners rubbed through, rubbing and shallow chipping at the spine ends, penny-sized chip from the spine leather on Vol. II, p.o. bookplates on the front pastedowns, rubber stamps on the title pages.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. "Authorized Edition." Two volumes; octavos; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilts; xiv,473; x,495pp. Spines a shade darkened and ends slightly scuffed, textblocks uniformly toned, later ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good, sound set overall.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. 473 p.; 494 p. Authorized edition. Illustrated. Very Good condition. Clean pages. Scratching to marbled cloth; wear to crimson cloth at heads. Bumped corners with exposed tips. 1913 bookplates on paste downs.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo in 3/4 burgundy morocco on marbled paper, gilt spine title, t.e.g. Bindings tight and square, hinges firm, moderate rubbing at the spine ends, corners rubbed through, very shallow chipping at the tops of the spines
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1696.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 15 Volumes, Authorized Edition. Half maroon leather and marbled boards, gilt spine titles, top edge gilt, illustrated with many line-drawings, plates, and maps, some unopened. Volumes include: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. 1897 Third Edition, plates & 1 folding map; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. 1897 Third Edition, with maps and illustrations, some in colour and many folding; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 1897; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. In Two Volumes. 1897, illustrated; Insectivorous Plants. 1897, illustrated; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. 1897, illustrated; The Power of Movement in Plants. 1897, illustrated; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservaton of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. In Two Volumes. With Additions and Corrections from Sixth and Last English Edition. 1898; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. 1898 Second Edition Revised and Augmented, illustrated; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 1898 with Photographic and other illustrations; The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits. 1898, illustrated; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including and Autobiographical Chapter. In Two Volumes. Edited by his son Francis Darwin. 1898, illustrated. Very lightly scuffed at the spine ends, with a faint odour of moth balls, else a good, clean and tight set.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada