Bettany, GT

Life of Charles Darwin, publ Walter Scott, London, 1887. 1st edition. In ‘Great Writers’ series. 206pp + adverts, untrimmed, some pages uncut. HB, in dark blue cloth covered boards. Minor shelf wear and area where blue of cover scrubbed out, possibly a label removed. Pencil notes on rear end paper. Extensive bibliography and index. Library bookplate. In good condition.

£8

Brent, Peter

Charles Darwin, publ. Hamlyn, 1983, 536pp. PB, in good condition, lightly worn. A clear, attractive scholarly account. Well indexed.

£3

Darwin, Frances (ed)

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, Dover reprint, 1958 of 1892 publication. 365pp + adverts 16pp. PB. Corners bumped, inner end papers removed, front and back. Otherwise, in good condition.

£4

de Beer, G

Charles Darwin: Evolution by Natural Selection, Thos.Nelson, London, 1963, 1st edition. 290pp. HB, green cloth covered boards, bumped and faded where not covered by DJ. DJ is shelf worn and torn  with loss at base of spine. In good condition

£9

Dempster, WJ

The Illlustrious Hunter and the Darwins, publ. Book Guild, Sussex, 2005, 1^st edition. 198pp. PB in fine condition. Concerns the thinkers, before and contemporaneous with Darwin, who developed the concept of evolution – Hunter, Lamarck, Cuvier, Matthew and Blyth – and why they remain less well known.

£6

Moorehead, Alan

Darwin and the Beagle, publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1969, 1^st edition, 2^nd impression. 280pp. HB, lightly bumped, binding sound, dustjacket with minor marginal tears, otherwise in very good condition. Abundantly illustrated popular account by the great historian of exploration.

£12

Pearson, Hesketh

Doctor Darwin, publ. JM Dent, London, 1930, 1^st edition. 242pp. Corners bumped, pages age toned and occasional foxed. Binding sound. In good condition. About Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, founder of the Lunar Society, polymath and an early evolutionist. Pearson was a greaty X3 grandson of Erasmus Darwin and had access to family archives.

£12

Morris, S et al

Charles Darwin at Down House, 2006, 5th edition, publ. English Heritage. PB, A4 size, 60pp. Numerous illustrations of house and grounds and portraits of Darwin, his family and wide circle of acquaintance. As new.

£2

Quammen, David

SOLD

The Reluctant Mr.Darwin; an Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, publ. Norton, London, 2006, 1^st edition. 304pp. HB, in new condition with dustjacket. A well informed account written for a general audience.

Seward, AC (ed)

Darwin and Modern Science; Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species, publ. Cambridge UP, 1909, 1^st edition. 595pp. Corners slightly bumped, spine ends frayed, slight age toning of text, binding sound. Generally, in good condition. 29 wide-ranging essays, well indexed, by eminent scholars of the day. The majority regarding botany or aspects of human development, but including papers on geology, paleontology and astronomy.

£50

Thomson, KS

HMS Beagle: the Ship that Changed the Course of History, 2003 Phoenix PB edition, 320pp. In very good condition.

£4

Weissmann, G

Darwin’s Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination, selected essays by GW, 2001, 1st PB edtion, 341pp. In very good condition

£6