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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

Revised proof sheets for Insectivorous Plants . London: W. Clowes and Son for John Murray, 1875, with substantial autograph annotations, emendations and cancellations.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel WALLACE (1823-1913)

'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties.' In: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society , Vol. III, No. 9. London: 1858.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

Letter signed (‘Ch. Darwin’) to [Alfred Russel] Wallace, Down House, 3 August [1872].

First Edition Origin of Species

Charles Darwin, 1859

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) — FITZROY, Robert (1805-1865, editor)

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) -— FITZROY, Robert (1805-1865, editor). Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

Defending the principle of natural selection

Charles Darwin. 22 November 1876

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) AND ROBERT FITZROY (1805-1865)

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication .. . Second edition, revised, fourth thousand. London: John Murray, 1875.

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) — Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865, editor)

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel WALLACE (1823-1913). 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties.' Extract from: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9. London: 1858.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication ... Second edition, revised, fourth thousand . London: John Murray, 1875.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray, 1871.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Autograph letter signed ('Ch. Darwin') to [John Jenner Weir], Down, 20 May [1869]

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species . London: John Murray, 1860.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

Autograph letter signed (‘Ch. Darwin‘) to Alexander Agassiz, Down House, 28 August [1871].

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Letter signed ('Charles Darwin') to [Dr Rudolph Heine], Down, 16 (corrected from 15) March [1865], 'I am pleased to hear that you have been interested in my work on the Origin of Species. Your law of inheritance I dare say is true & may have some bearing on the modification of species; but I fear it would be difficult to prove it with sufficient clearness to allow of its use', 2 pages, 8vo , bifolium, a draft letter by the recipient to Sir James Beart Simonds, 7 November 1865, on the subject of horses' teeth occupying the head and foot of the letter, and part of the integral blank. Provenance : Stargardt sale, 26 March 1992, lot 582; private collection.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

‘An account of the fine dust which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic Ocean.’ Extracted from: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Proceedings) , vol. 2, pp.26-30. London: 1846.

A glowing review of the naturalist’ s report on the Challenger expedition

Charles Darwin. 4 February 1879

'The most memorable scientific expedition which ever left England'

Charles Darwin. 5 November 1876

On deep-sea dwellers and hermaphrodites

Charles Darwin. 7 February 1877

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Autograph letter signed ('Charles Darwin') to [Thomas Rivers], Down, 23 December [1862]

THE FIRST 30 VOLUMES OF THE MONOGRAPHS OF THE PALAEONTOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, INCLUDING WORKS BY CHARLES DARWIN AND RICHARD OWEN.

LONDON: PALAEONTOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1848-1876.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species . London: John Murray, 1860.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) — Robert FITZROY (1805-1865, editor)

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

Manuscript bibliography with autograph emendations, n.p. [Down House], n.d. [20 July 1870].

Darwin burnishes his geological credentials after the Beagle expedition

Charles Darwin. 8 May 1841

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

Charles Darwin, 1839

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). A collection of 13 of his works in 14 volumes, 19th-century editions, all published in London, and all by John Murray, excepting the first two named works: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs . Smith, Elder and Co., 1842. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 271. -- Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands . Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 272. -- The Expression of the Emotions of Man and Animals . 1872. FIRST EDITION, second issue, plates numbered in Arabic. (Lacking the last two leaves of integral advertisements.) Freeman 1142. -- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication ... Second edition, revised, fourth thousand . 1875. 2 volumes. Freeman 880. -- Insectivorous Plants ... third thousand . 1875. Half-title, errata slip. Freeman 1219. -- The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants ... second thousand . 1876. Half-title. Reprint of the second edition. Freeman 837. -- The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom . FIRST EDITION. 1876. Errata leaf. Freeman 1249. -- The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects ... Second edition, revised . 1877. Half-title. Freeman 801. -- The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species . 1877. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 1277. -- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second edition (thirteenth thousand), revised and augmented . London: 1879. Half-title. Freeman 951. -- The Power of Movement in Plants . 1880. Half-title. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 1325. -- The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection ... Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand) . 1880. Half-title. Freeman 405. -- The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms ... Third thousand . 1881. Errata slip. Freeman 1359. 13 volumes, 8° (first two named works 215 x 133mm; the remainder 184 x 125mm excepting Descent of Man 184 x 115mm). Uniformly bound in late 19th-century dark-green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spines, lettered in second and third compartments, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Nevil and Thereza Story Maskelyne (Basset Down House circular armorial bookplate). RARE SET OF DARWIN'S WORKS FORMED BY CORRESPONDENTS OF DARWIN. The prominent mineralogist Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823-1911) and his wife and photographic pioneer Thereza (1834-1926), corresponded with Darwin on several occasions, e.g.: 3 December 1871 Nevil requested copies of Darwin's botanical works for Thereza (Dar. Corr. 8091); 4 May 1874 Thereza sent Darwin details of her primrose-eating canary (Dar. Corr. 9426). No collected edition of Darwin was published in his lifetime; indeed, this was only issued in 1990, and collected sets formed in the 19th-century, such as the present lot, are rare. (14)

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of natural Selection . London: John Murray, 1859.

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

Autograph letter signed ('Ch. Darwin') to [Richard Trevor Clarke] ('My dear Sir'), Down, 29 November [1862].

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Autograph letter signed ('Ch. Darwin') to [Thomas Rivers], Down, 1 February [1863]

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the voyage of H.M.S Beagle, together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836 . London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1844.

CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)

On the most recent editions of his works

Charles Darwin. 10 March 1875

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed ('Charles Darwin') to Baron Antonio Mendola (in Favara, Sicily), Down, 8 January 1879, thanking him for a specimen, and going on 'Your statements are so remarkable that I can assure you that no naturalist, without repeated & most careful observations with all the many chances of error avoided, would think them worthy of any consideration'; Darwin is too busy to undertake the investigation himself, 'and therefore will not trouble you to send the horn', two pages, 8vo , on a bifolium; envelope. Provenance : by descent from the recipient.