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FIRST USE OF THE TERM 'EVOLUTION' - IN THIS DARWIN'S LAST LIFETIME EDITION 8vo. xxii, 458pp., folding diagram, original green cloth, sides with a blind-blocked border, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new end papers close match to the originals and with the original binder's ticket 'W. Bone & Son' on rear end paper, old stamps of Belfast Association of Spiritualists on half-title, title page and head of contents leaf, half title a little dust marked and rubbed at edges, cloth a little marked, else very good. FREEMAN Darwin Bibliography, 398 The sixth issue of the sixth edition. Darwin's last lifetime edition and the first to use the term "evolution".

FIRST ISSUE IN A HANDSOME BINDINGfirst edition, first issue 8vo. [2 (half-title & advt.)], x, 592pp., 196 figures on text leaves, handsome modern contemporary-style half light tan calf, spine panelled by gilt-rolled raised bands, large blind tool at panel centres, red morocco label gilt, old marbled paper on sides, top edge gilt, trivial old water stain at the extreme foot of the first few leaves. A nice copy.Freeman Darwin Bibliography 1325. First issue with 2 lines of errata on page x."This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanism holds good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other, and was not reprinted in England after the year of Darwin's death until modern facsimiles appeared of the first thousand in 1966 and the second in 1969.The first edition was published on November 6, 1880, and it is recorded that 1500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. It was in a standard… Read More

IMPRESSIVE PRODUCT OF A DUBLIN FEMALE PRINTER first Irish edition folio (35.6 x 22 cms.) [4 (title & preface)], [2 (list of subscribers)], 734, [16 (index)]pp., title page handsomely printed in red and black, attractive woodcut initial letter borders at section heads, early nineteenth (or possibly late eighteenth) century polished calf, triple gilt fillet border on sides, spine panelled by broad raised bands, panels richly gilt tooled, black morocco title label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, minor cracking at ends of joints with trivial chip at head of rear joint, else a very nice tall, wide-margined and fresh copy. Armorial engraved bookplate of the Earl of Clancarty. ESTC t145513 Printed by Elizabeth Jones, printer and bookseller. This is one of the largest format and impressive publications of mid-eighteenth century Dublin. There are 163 named subscribers, three of whom took multiple copies giving a total of 178 copies. It is probable that about 200 copies were printed.… Read More

CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON END PAPERS 4to. [1 (blank)], [1 (illustration)], [2 (title leaf)], [31], [1 (blank)], 276, 305-583, [1 (blank)]pp. (complete thus) with an illustration on the verso of first leaf, type ornament border on title page, contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine panelled by raised bands and with later maroon morocco title labels, edges of boards sometime neatly refurbished, later endpapers probably inserted at the same time, a few contemporary notes, 2 preliminary leaves and 2 terminal blank leaves (the original endpapers) with extensive contemporary manuscript equine recepies and remedies (on the preliminary ones) and on potential problems with London trained grooms (on the terminal ones). A nice copy and a rare survival in its original binding. WING D859 ESTC r1378 locates a surprisingly small number of copies - B.L., Cambridge, Oxford, Leeds and Shakespeare Birthday Trust only in UK, and 10 only in North America. This classic seventeenth century work on horses first… Read More

VERY INFLUENTIAL EDITION OF A MASONIC CLASSICHIGH POINT IN MASONIC INVOLVEMENT IN 'PATRIOT' POLITICSA MAJOR TROVE OF 18TH CENTURY VERSE[Full title] Ahiman Rezon: or, a Help to a Brother. Shewing, the Excellency of Secrecy, and the first Cause of the Institution of Freemasonry; the Principles of the Craft, and the Benefits arising from a strict Observance thereof; the Sort of Men that ought to be initiated into the Mystery, and the Kind of Masons that are fit to govern Lodges, with their proper Behaviour in and out of the Lodge. The ancient Manner of Constituting new Lodges, with all the Charges, &c. Likewise the Prayers used in Jewish and Christian Lodges. Also, the Old and New Regulations, the Manner of choosing and installing Grand-Master and Officers, &c. To which is added, a Large Collection of Masons Songs, entertaining Prologues and Epilogues, and Solomon's Temple: An Oratorio. By Brother Laurence Dermott, Sec. The Fifth Edition, with Additions.first edition thus 12mo. xxiii,… Read More

first edition (apparently bound from the parts) tall 8vo. xiv, [2 (errata leaf)], 624pp., 40 etched plates including additional engraved title page, contemporary half tan calf, smooth spine gilt decorated and with a dark maroon title label gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled sides, tiny pale mark at extreme head of spine, marbled sides a little rubbed, plates foxed as usual (some heavily), else very good.
An early issue with all first issue errors apart from ''screamed'' for ''screwed'' on page 132 (present in earliest copies only): Chapter XXVII on page 282 and not page 283 as listed on the contents page; p. 16, line 1 and p. 225, line 22 - ''recal'' instead of ''recall''; p. 19, 12 lines from the bottom - ''cha pter ;ut''; p. 387, 6 lines from the bottom - ''coroboration'' instead of ''corroboration''; p. 472, 13 lines from the bottom - no closing of the quotation marks; ''1850'' under the publishers' imprint on the engraved title-page

LAST & MOST COMPLETE 17th CENTURY EDITION - NEW POEMS & MANY TEXTUAL CHANGES fifth edition (last and complete 17th. century edition) 8vo. [6], 304, 307-322, 321-336, 377-392, 353-414pp. very irregular pagination but complete but for the preliminary and final blank leaves A1 and Dd8, early nineteenth century half tan calf, smooth spine panelled by gilt fillets, dark brown morocco title label gilt, marbled sides, title page backed with plain paper apparently at an early date (or at time of binding), first few leaves lightly but evenly toned, some light spotting scattered throughout, narrow blank strip trimmed from fore-edges the 2 leaves B6 & B7 (apparently to remove a smoke mark), closed tear (no loss and with minor old repair) in C1, some light staining and minor adhesion on leaves H1-2 (the facing pages 98-99 once apparently lightly pasted together) and with a closed tear (no loss) in the latter leaf H2 repaired with archival tissue, small paper flaw in X1 causing the loss of some letters of… Read More