Charles darwin preliminary notice (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First American Edition. Title on spine: The Life of Erasmus Darwin. 8vo, pp. iv, 216 + publisher's ads, bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf; paper over front hinge is cracked and hinge is slightly wobbly, otherwise clean and sound, with slight wear to extremities. A scientific biography of Erasmus Darwin by Krause, a German biologist, with a prefatory note by Darwin's grandson, Charles. Freeman #1320.…

Condizione: Very Good-. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's decorative terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, brown glazed endpapers; iv,216,[8](ads)pp.; portrait frontispiece. Ex-AAS with their faint pressurestamp to title page otherwise free of library markings, moderate wear to margins with small chip at spine crown, front hinge cracked with brief old tape repair; Good to Very Good overall. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.…