Charles darwin portrait letters (10 resultados)

Payne, Anthony, Darwin, Charles. Charles Darwin: a portrait in letters and print: catalogue by Anthony Payne. With an introduction by Janet Browne. London: Bernard Quaritch, W. P. Watson Antiquarian Books, 2003, 64pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good copy, light wear to foredges and edge of cover, previous owner's (bookseller) "received" stamp and date on half-title. LAID IN: loose sheet of price list. - Heavily annotated antiquarian bookseller catalog. 9781900496155 ISBN 1900496151. …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Janet Browne. Numerous textual illustrations. A choice collection of books and letters by the great naturalist. The price list and a printed presentation slip from Bernard Quaritch are laid in. Original burgundy linen-covered wrappers, with a printed paper title label on th front. A near fine copy. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated, 64 pages.

Near Fine in publishers wrappers with label to front wrapper. Price - list tipped - in. 1st issue of attractive Catalogue. ISBN 1900496151.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Bound in green cloth with blind-stamped decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine, light rubbing to all cover edges, clean tight and unmarked savve for neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, no foxing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Book measures 20x14cm, 348pp, Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt title lettering on spine, boarder and design on front and back boards. Binding with minor wear, scuffed corners, light dust dirt marking. Binding in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A very good clean copy.…

Octavo,64 pp.,photographs, wrappers. A very useful bibliography.

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FIRST EDITION, IN SIGNED BINDING BY MACMILLAN & BOWES, CAMBRIDGE. 8vo, pp. vi, [vi], 348, incl. facsimile from 1837 notebook, two b/w illustrations + b/w photogravure frontis portrait of Darwin, after Julia Margaret Cameron's 1868 photograph. Signed binding by Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge: full olive calf, five raised band, gilt-stamped lettering and simple floriate decorations to spine, understated art nouveau style decoration to boards, featuring single blind rules with circular flourishes at corners, framing single repeat gilt-stamped floriate decorations. Gilt roll-tooled dots to edges, repeated in double blind to turn-ins. Marbled edges and endpapers. Spine sunned, joints, and extremities rubbed, a little scoring. Gently toned, offsetting from frontis portrait, a few marks, else, pleasingly, clean, tight and bright. Very good A rather handsome copy of the 1892 abridged edition of the posthumous epistolary autobiography of Charles Darwin, edited by his son, Francis, and bound by a contemporary Cambridge institution (which didn't quite overlap with Darwin himself, who had died in 1882), the bookshop, publisher and stationer's Macmillan and Bowes of Cambridge; Darwin had studied at Christ's College, Cambridge (a period covered in this volume) and returned to the city in 1836 following his almost five-year voyage on HMS Beagle. Macmillan and Bowes of Cambridge (1882-1907) was situated on Trinity Street and run by talented bookseller and ABA President-to-be, Robert Bowes (1835-1919), nephew of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan. Five years after his father's death, Francis Darwin had edited The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter (1887; three vols.), then, five years after that, he edited this one-volume abridged edition, which contains "some matter not in F1452 [the unabridged edition]". Freeman 1461.…

London 1902, 348 pp., photos of Charles Darwin, hardcover (code Sc-153).