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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887, 3 Volume Set; First edition - Fifth Thousand Revised.
A very smart set indeed of this work on the life of Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set. We hav...
View full detailsGreat Naturalist Series; Gilbert White, by R.M. Lockley, H.F. & G. Witherby, London, 1954
A very good copy of R.M. Lockley's biography of Gilbert White (1720-1793), a pioneering English naturalist and man of the Church. He was highly res...
View full detailsWhite of Selborne, Walter S. Scott, the Falcon Press, 1950
A very good copy of Walter S. Scott's biography of Gilbert White (1720-1793), a pioneering English naturalist and man of the Church. He was highly ...
View full detailsA History of The Earth and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith, Baron Cuvier, Washington Irving, Vol. 1, c. 1845
A History of The Earth and Animated Nature, By Oliver Goldsmith. With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom by Baron Cuvier; Copius Notes of D...
View full detailsThe Discoverers; A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, Daniel J. Boorstin, Gryphon Editions 1990
A beautifully presented volume of this work, first published in 1983. Very much a deluxe edition from Gryphon Editions, in full pigskin leather, sp...
View full detailsChambers's Miscellany of Useful & Entertaining Tracts, bound as Vol VII (actually spanning Vols. XVIII-XX), 1847
A charming bound copy of Chambers Miscellany containing a wealth of informative essays and features to interest Victorian readers. Still an enterta...
View full detailsThe Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983); The First Two Hundred Years, Neil Campbell and R. Martin Smellie, 1983
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983); The First Two Hundred Years, by Neil Campbell and R. Martin Smellie. With a Foreword by the Hon. Lord C...
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Memoir of Robert Chambers with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers, 1872
Robert Chambers, along with his elder brother William, were Scottish Publishers, and highly influential figures in 19th Century Scottish Society. A...
View full detailsCharles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle, Nora Barlow, Pilot Press, 1945. Chiswick Press.
Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle. Edited with an introduction by Nora Barlow. Published by Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1945 first edition. ...
View full detailsCharles Darwin; The Living Thoughts of Darwin, with Julian Huxley and James Fisher, 1958. Signed Presentation copy from Julian Huxley.
Charles Darwin; The Living Thoughts of Darwin. Presented in a New and Revised Edition with a Preface by Julian Huxley, assisted by James Fisher. SO...
View full detailsPolyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus, Danielis Georg Morhof, 1714
Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...
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