Category: Evolution

The Cuckoo, and Other Bird Mysteries (with letters from the author)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode : 1946

Seller ID: 014025

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Second impression. Slim octavo, pp 202, (i), very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, in a rather worn and wrinkled dustwrapper which is obviously of wartime economy production. [This copy belonged to the nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan}, with her pencilled notes on the dustwrapper and various neat pencil marks in the margins. It also contains three interesting letters from the author {these have been cut in two to facilitate fitting in the book}, and three little pamphlets regarding The Evolution Protest Movement including one by Acworth on Darwin and ...
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The Nature and Origin of the Biological World

By: Ambrose, E.J.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Chichester, Ellis Horwood Limited : 1982

Seller ID: 014814

ISBN-13: 9780853124542

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

Illustrations and diagrams within the text, octavo, pp 190, pictorial boards, a very good copy indeed - virtually as new. VERY SCARCE.
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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

By: Bagemihl, Bruce

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, Profile Books : 1999

Seller ID: 019659

ISBN-13: 9781861971821

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 752, very clean internally, green cloth with very minimal bruising, the dustwrapper with just very slight signs of use.
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Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle - Unpublished Letters and Notebooks

By: Barlow, Nora (editor); Darwin, Charles

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Pilot Press Ltd : 1945

Seller ID: 018462

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp (4), 279, a folding map at the rear, the fore-edge slightly rough, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth a little blotched, in a very poor dustwrapper.
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A Century of Darwin

By: Barnett, S.A. (editor)

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, Mercury Books : 1962

Seller ID: 018242

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

A few illustrations, octavo, pp xvi, 376, a little bit used throughout, corners very slightly bruised, paperback, the covers age-toned and creased. [Essays by Gavin de Beer, Dobzhansky, Heslop-Harrison, C.M. Younge and others.]
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Mendel's Principles of Genetics

By: Bateson, W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press : 1913

Seller ID: 012622

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Third impression, with additions. Illustrated, including six colour plates, pp xiv, 413, a bit used and thumbed throughout, cloth rubbed and a little marked, lacking the top 7mm of the spine, joints cracked but firm. A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Wisley Laboratory, with a withdrawn stamp on the front endpaper, but no other markings.
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The Primrose and Darwinism

By: Bell, Edward ["A Field Naturalist"]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Grant Richards : 1902

Seller ID: 019141

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small octavo, illustrated with a few line drawings in the text, pp xiv, 233, the final blank page creased and torn, a little weak internally with two hinges starting to crack, a small neat owner's signature on the front endpaper, green cloth slightly worn.
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Inheritance and Natural History

By: Berry, R.J.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Collins : 1977

Seller ID: 015146

ISBN-13: 9780002190848

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

First edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp 350, a production fault has led to corner creasing on pages 216-265, [see illustration] otherwise extremely clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a £6.50 price, but is slightly faded on its spine. [This absorbing book is about genetics as it applies to the world around us. Its main aim is to show the ways in which inherited variation can help to explain the properties of natural populations: the differences between individuals, the extent and mechanism for transmitting characteristics from one gene...
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Charles Darwin - a man of enlarged curiosity

By: Brent, Peter

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1981

Seller ID: 010483

ISBN-13: 9780434085958

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 536, original cloth-backed boards in very good condition, a very good copy in a rather worn and frayed dustwrapper.
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Plant Population Genetics, Breeding, and Genetic Resources

By: Brown, Anthony H. D. ; Michael T. Clegg; Alex L. Kahler; Bruce S. Weir (editors)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Sunderland, Mass., Sinauer Associates : 1990

Seller ID: 014156

ISBN-13: 9780878931170

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp xii, 449, (not illustrated), very clean internally, paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of use. A very good copy.
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society Volume LVI part 2

By: Bunyard, Edward A.; Sutton, M.A.F.; Dr Bauer; Oscar Warburg; A. Baker; J. Davidson; G.W. Leak; Thomas Hay; T.A. Lofthouse

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, RHS : 1931

Seller ID: 015508

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp (123) + Proceedings, Index and advertisements, slightly used internally, paperback, covers slightly marked. [Includes The Garden at St Nicholas, Richmond, Baur on Evolution and Plant Breeding at Muenchenberg; Peony cultivation; John Wedgewood's Garden; Flora of British Columbia; Gardening in London; Cistus Hybrids; Plant Hunting in the Sierra Nevada; The Cult of the Tulip in Turkey; Reports of the trials of Dimorphotheca, alpine Phlox and Trollius.
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Environment and Archaeology - an introduction to pleistocene geography

By: Butzer, Karl W.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd : 1964

Seller ID: 014160

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition, illustrated with text line drawings and maps, large octavo, pp xviii, 524, for-edge slightly foxed, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, brown cloth in very bright condition, the dustwrapper is slightly frayed, and rather badly foxed on its lower cover. Overall, though, a rather good copy.
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Image for Experimental Studies on the Nature of Species. Volume 1 - Effect of Varied Environments on Western North American Plants. Volume 2 - Plant Evolution Through Amphiploidy and Autoploidy, with examples from the Madiinae

Experimental Studies on the Nature of Species. Volume 1 - Effect of Varied Environments on Western North American Plants. Volume 2 - Plant Evolution Through Amphiploidy and Autoploidy, with examples from the Madiinae

By: Clausen, Jens; Keck, David D. & Hiesy, William M.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution

Seller ID: 015318

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

1940-1945. Two volumes, illustrated, large octavo, pp vi, 452; viii, 174, green cloth. The second volume is a duplicate from Royal Holloway College Library, with stamps; otherwise an exceptionally clean set. [The rare first printing. At least two further volumes were published later.]
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Pioneers of Evolution - From Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement

By: Clodd, Edward

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company Ltd : 1907

Seller ID: 016867

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Revised edition. Octavo, pp xii, 252, a slight stain to the inner margin of the first few pages, otherwise clean and sound internally, small errate slip tipped in, green cloth very slightly worn and rubbed, the spine a little dull.
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Catastrophes and Evolution: Astronomical Foundations

By: Clube, S.V.M. (editor)

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1989

Seller ID: 017901

ISBN-13: 9780521374200

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

With a few illustrations and charts, octavo, pp xii, 239, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper showing the very faintest signs of use. [ The 1988 BAAS Mason Meeting of the Royal Atronomical Society at Oxford, September 6th, 1988.]
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Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution (The Systematics Association Special Volume Series 65)

By: Cronk, Quentin C.B.; Bateman, Richard M. & Hawkins, Julie A.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Taylor & Francis : 2002

Seller ID: 011019

ISBN-13: 9780415257916

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large thick 8vo, a few illustrations, pp xvi, 542,fore-edge slightly marked, paperback, very slight signs of wear to the covers, but overall a very good copy. {A heavy book - extra postage may be needed}. [A benchmark text, Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution integrates the recent revolution in the molecular-developmental genetics of plants with mainstream evolutionary thought. It reflects the increasing cooperation between strongly genomics-influenced researchers, with their strong grasp of technology, and evolutionary morphogenetists and systematists who are more deeply rooted in comp...
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La Lotta per l'Esistenza (The Struggle for Existence)

By: D'Ancona, Umberto

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Turin, Giulio Einaudi : 1942

Seller ID: 009475

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

[Italian text]. Thick square 8vo, pp 357, uncut and unopened, very clean internally, paperback, covers a little rubbed and chipped, spine creased.
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The Botanic Garden; A Poem in Two Parts. Part I, containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II - The Loves of the Plants

By: Darwin, Erasmus

Price: £650.00

Publisher: St Paul's Churchyard, London, J. Johnson : 1791

Seller ID: 017068

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Two volumes bound in one. {Volume 1 - Second edition, 1791. Volume 2 - Third edition, 1791. Blanche Henrey 470 ?}. Illustrated with two engraved allegorical frontispieces, 18 engraved plates (one of them folding and two hand-coloured), quarto, pp xii, 214, 126, (ii(; x, 197, both frontispieces and title pages browned and with some offsetting from plate to title, the plates of the Portland Vase and the Fertilisation of Egypt similar, (this last plate by Blake after Fuseli); the remaining botanical plates clean, lacking the corner of page 171/2, a releveant pencilled note at the base of one page...
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The Blind Watchmaker

By: Dawkins, Richard

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Longmans Scientific and Technical : 1986

Seller ID: 018204

ISBN-13: 9780582446946

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few illustrations, large octavo, pp xiv, 332, the fore-edge slightly marked, otherwise very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper shows only very slight signs of use.
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Charles Darwin - Evolution by Natural Selection (Richard Fitter's copy)

By: De Beer, Gavin

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd : 1963

Seller ID: 010776

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small 8vo, illustrated, pp xii, 290, fore-edge very slightly marked, otherwise clean internally, green cloth very slightly worn, in a slightly worn and creased dustwrapper which is lacking a piece on both the upper and lower cover, but which is now nicely protected in a removable plastic cover. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper].
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Category: Evolution

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