London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Christabel Beck, who cultivated many Fritillaria species was the first to write a book on the genus, and may be the only one to have done so. Four color plates and 40 monochrome plates, plus other illustrations in text. Bookplates of Ruby... Item #45948 More about FRITILLARIES: A Gardener's Introduction to the Genus Fritillaria
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. Profusely illustrated with line drawings. Light damp-stain to front, top corner, otherwise near fine. Item #47996 More about SOME NEGLECTED FACTORS IN EVOLUTION: An Essay in Constructive Biology
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, (1950). First edition. Publication #77 of the American Lecture Series. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Dr. Coon on the front endpaper. Each author explores his field of interest in this lecture series. Light offset to the endpapers, otherwise near fine in dust jacket darkened on spine... Item #47623 More about RACES: A Study of the Problems of Race Formation in Man
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971. Facsimile of the letter, with typescript and explanation. Printed at the Stinehour Press for the Friends of the Library. Large, stapled paperwraps with cover serving as title page. Fine in original mailing envelope which shows light wear. Item #48007 More about A LETTER OF CHARLES DARWIN: About the Preparations for the Voyage of the Beagle, 1831
(Kent, England & Hamden, CT): Dawson / Archon Books, 1980. An excellent reference book in near fine condition, with only slight shelf wear. Item #48011 More about BRITISH NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS, 1495-1900: A Handlist
London: Printed for the Author, 1984. Facsimile of the 1888 "Pedigree of the Family of Darwin," compiled by H. Farnham Burke, and privately printed in an edition of only 60 copies. Tall, dark green cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine. Fine, with typed errata sheet lain in. Item #48012 More about DARWIN PEDIGREES
London/ New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Darwin's proposal of two sources of instinct--natural selection and inherited habit--fostered among late-nineteenth-century evolutionists a variety of conflicting notions concerning the mechanisms of evolution. Morgan, a British comparative psychologist, was a cardinal figure in restructuring the orthodox Darwinian conception to meet the... Item #45998 More about HABIT AND INSTINCT
London: Williams and Norgate, 1926. First edition. "In these lectures Professor Lloyd Morgan develops in further detail the concept of emergent evolution in its application to life and mind as manifestations of divine purpose. Evolution is here regarded not only as a doctrine of descent but as that which [characterizes]... Item #48029 More about LIFE, MIND, AND SPIRIT: Being the Second Course of The Gifford Lectures ... 1923 ... on Emergent...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. A newspaper size (23 x 16") publication that appears to be pushing Cape's authors' work. Called "extra" Number One 1985. It includes Vonnegut's "In the Beginning," written after he and his wife visited Galapagos, and seems more relevant now than in 1985. "The debate about teaching... Item #40131 More about "IN THE BEGINNING" in EXTRA