[Darwin, Charles]

Huxley, Thomas Henry. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. Williams and Norgate, 1863, first edition, second issue (with frontispiece on an inserted leaf, contents list on recto of A4 and 8pp. adverts dated "March 1863"), original green cloth, corners and head and foot of spine bumped; Huxley, Thomas Henry. Charles Darwin, offprint from the Obituary Notice of the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. 44, Harrison, [1882], first separate edition, original printed wrappers, two copies, upper wrapper of one copy detached--Jenyns, Leonard. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John van Voorst, 1862, first edition, including a memoir of Henslow by Darwin, binding variant a (with 16pp. publisher's adverts dated "Dec. 1860"), original purple cloth [Freeman 830], rebacked preserving original spine, two discreet ink stamps of the Royal Entomological Society--Krause, Ernest. Erasmus Darwin. Murray, 1879, first edition in a variant binding not recorded in Freeman (180mm., with gilt edges, and different setting of spine block), inscribed by Emma Darwin to "E.A. Wheler Granddaughter | of D^r Erasmus Darwin | Nov^r. 1879", introduction by Darwin, green cloth [see Freeman 1319], head and foot of spine bumped; another two copies, green cloth, bookplates, ink inscription in one copy--Müller, Herman. The Fertilisation of Flowers. Macmillan, 1883, first edition in English, preface by Darwin, 2pp. adverts at end, original green cloth [Freeman 1432], spine worn at head with tear to cloth, neat ownership inscription to half title--[Smithsonian Institution]. Annual Report...for the year 1867. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1868, including Darwin's "Queries about Expression", green cloth [Freeman 874], rebound, label on read endpaper and three discreet library stamps, boards worn at extremities, a few small tears to upper edges of pages--Weisman, August. Studies in the Theory of Descent. Sampson, Low [&c.], 1882, 2 volumes, preface by Darwin, 8 plates, 32pp. adverts dated "September, 1883" at end of vol. 2, green cloth [Freeman 1414], a few discreet library stamps, some pages coming loose, both volumes worn at head and foot of spine, vol. 1 with tear at lower joint--Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. On the Variation of Species. John Van Voorst, 1856, first edition, dedicated to Darwin, advertisement leaf at end, original olive cloth, spine defective, neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper; all 8vo (11)

This lot is being sold by the Charles Darwin Trust to fund the gift of Quentin Keynes’ remaining collection of important Darwin and Wallace books and manuscripts to the Linnean Society, for use in their educational programmes.