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Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A bargain because the leather spine is gone. Marbled boards.Inside, clean and tight with no stains, no foxing, no browning Top edge gilt. An important contribution to Darwin's evolutionary work. Needs to be joined up with volume one. Includes a long index for both volumes.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A bargain because the leather spine is gone. Marbled boards.Inside, clean and tight with no stains, no foxing, no browning Top edge gilt. An important contribution to Darwin's evolutionary work.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Description: [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting orange and green labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. A small tear to half-title. A clean copy, partially unopened, in an attractive new binding. Very good. Darwin considers the geology of various locations in the South Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including the Galapagos Islands, Cape Verde, Tahiti, Australia, and New Zealand, which he famously visited on his voyage on board the Beagle from 1832 to 1836. Combined from two separate books first published in 1844 and 1846.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Appleton, 1896. 3/4 green leather, marbled boards. lightly sunned but bright and in exceptional condition.No former owner marks. These 15 volumes compile the American Edition of Spencer's ambitious "System of Synthetic Philosophy" first published in separate volumes from 1860-1892. The scheme of which is outlined in The "Study of Sociology" and elaborated in the final volume, "Principles of Ethics". Each volume contains both the original preface, and with updated prefaces to the set, as appropriate. In this System, his life work, "Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology. Spencer is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. In 1858 Spencer produced an outline of what was to become the System of Synthetic Philosophy. This immense undertaking, which has few parallels in the English language, aimed to demonstrate that the principle of evolution applied in biology, psychology, sociology (Spencer appropriated Comte's term for the new discipline) and morality. Spencer envisaged that this work of ten volumes would take twenty years to complete; in the end it took him twice as long and consumed almost all the rest of his long life.Despite Spencer's early struggles to establish himself as a writer, by the 1870s he had become the most famous philosopher of the age. The basis for Spencer's appeal to many of his generation was that he appeared to offer a ready-made system of belief which could substitute for conventional religious faith at a time when orthodox creeds were crumbling under the advances of modern science. Though Spencer made some valuable contributions to early sociology, not least in his influence on structural functionalism, his attempt to introduce Lamarckian or Darwinian ideas into the realm of sociology was unsuccessful. It was considered by many, furthermore, to be actively dangerous. Hermeneuticians of the period, such as Wilhelm Dilthey, would pioneer the distinction between the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) and human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften). (For better or worse) Spencer's theories of laissez-faire, survival-of-the-fittest and minimal human interference in the processes of natural law had an enduring and even increasing appeal in the social science fields of economics and political science." (wiki)
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Darwin, Charles. The Works of Charles Darwin. Authorized Edition. D. Appleton, 1896.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thirteen titles in fifteen volumes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Authorized Edition. TEG. Shelf wear to bindings. Starting at inner hinges of Volumes I of 'Origin of Species' and 'Life and Letters.' Small name stamp of previous owner on title pages. Good condition, still quite a nice and scarce complete set. The structure and distribution of coral reefs.; The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.; The origin of species by means of natural selection etc. In two volumes.; The variation of animals and plants under domestication. In two volumes.; Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc.; The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species.; The expression of the emotions in man and animals.; Geology of The Voyage of The Beagle: Volcanic islands and South America.; The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms etc.; The power of movement in plants.; Insectivorous plants.; The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. In two volumes. Bound in half-leather over marbled boards.
Seller: Buteo Books, Arrington, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete 15 volume set. Bound into half red morocco with marble boards. Top foredges gilt. A bit of edge rubbing. Some of the spines show darkening and spotting. Titles include: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New Edition, revised and augmented. (1896) 688 pages. The Different Forms of Flower on Plants of the Same Species. (1896) 352 pages. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 7 photograph plates. (1896) 372 pages. The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. (1896) 326 pages. Geological Observations. Third Edition. (1897) 648 pages. Fold out map (taped) 5 fold out charts and diagrams. Front board partially cracked at hinge. Insectivorous Plants. (1896) 462 pages. Journal of Researches. during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle,"New Edition". (1896) 519 pages. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin in two volumes. Edited by Francis Darwin. 6 plates including frontispiece portraits. (1896) 538 and 562 pages. The Origin of Species in two volumes. With additions and corrections from the 6th edition. Fold out chart in vol 1. (1896) 365 and 339 pages. The Power of Movement in Plants. (1896) 592 pages. Evidence of bookplate removal in rear. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Third Edition. 3 fold out map, small tears to 1. (1897) 344 pages. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication in two volumes. (1896) 473 and 495 pages.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Near fine set. 15 volumes - complete Authorized Edition, 1896. Uncommon in the original red morrocco binding, marbled boards, plain endpapers. No former owner marks. Gilt spine titles, top edge gilt. Illustrated with line-drawings, plates, and maps. This first authorized selected edition of Darwin's works brings together the most important and influential scientific contributions in what were, then, the latest editions. Set may be subject to additional shipping charges. Volumes include: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Third Edition with plates & 1 folding map;Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Third Edition, with maps and illustrations (some in colour and many folding in rear); 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.; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in Two Volumes, Illustrated; Insectivorous Plants, Illustrated; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, Illustrated; The Power of Movement in Plants, 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; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Second Edition Revised and Augmented, Illustrated; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, with Photographic and other Illustrations; The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits, Illustrated; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Including and Autobiographical Chapter, in Two Volumes, Edited by his son Francis Darwin.
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$14000.00 + shipping
Description: The Authorized edition of the works of Charles Darwin. Octavo, 15 volumes, bound in original three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with in-text drawings and plates, some volumes with frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. Charles Darwin has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over the past 150 years. His most well known works are The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man and Voyage of the Beagle.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.