Biology
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A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects;
[ETOMOLOGY]. NEWMAN, Edward.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...
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Actinologia Britannica.
GOSSE, Philip Henry.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Colour plates. First book edition of this attractive volume, written and illustrated by one of the foremost science popularisers of the Victorian e...
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...
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Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.
HUXLEY, T.H.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...
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History of British Birds [with] A Supplement to the History of British Birds, A General History of Quadrupeds [and] The Fables of Aesop.
BEWICK, Thomas & John.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...
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Journal of Researches
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...
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Naturhistorische Abhandlungen und Erläuterungen besonders die Petrefactenkunde betressend.
TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottfried.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...
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On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects,
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /The first volume of supporting evidence for the origin of species. First edition, first issue, of this important contribution to Darwin's theory of...
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Our Book of Feathered Friends.
HOYER, M.A.; WEEDON, L.L.; GASK, Lillian; BINGHAM, Clifton; COLLINS, Charles (illus.)Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...
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Palaeontology or
OWEN, Richard.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...
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Praktikum der Gewebepflege oder Explanation Besonders der Gewebezüchtung.
ERDMANN, Rhoda.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...
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Records of Parrots Bred in Captivity [together with] Additions.
PRESTWICH, Arthur A.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. First edition of this scarce, comprehensive record of international parrot breeding, inscribed by the author on the fr...
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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man.
LYELL, Charles.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Paleontological evidence of human evolution. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence...
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The Histogenesis of Cartilage and Bone in the Long Bones of the Embryonic Fowl
FELL, Honor B.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Early tissue culture work by a prominent woman scientist. The rare offprint of the first major work by prominent cell biologist Honor B. Fell (1900...
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The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg.
CONKLIN, Edwin G.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A milestone in embryology. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in our understanding of how fertilised eggs develop cell-by-cell. T...
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The Peregrine.
BAKER, J.A.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /A cult classic. First edition, first impression of this masterpiece of nature writing, cited by Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion, Werner Herzog, and other...
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The Prevention of Malaria.
ROSS, Ronald, et al.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Preventing malaria by understanding its transmission. First edition of this comprehensive work on the epidemiology of malaria by the doctor who ide...
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £1,850.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...
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