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On Mr. Spencer&Apos;S Formula of Evolution.

Malcolm Guthrie · 1879 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Trubner & Co. 1879. Cloth. A criticism of Herbert Spencer's concept of evolution, by Malcolm Guthrie. The book is split into six parts, including 'The Problem of Philosophy', 'An Inquiry as to the Intelligibility and Sufficiency of Mr. Spencer's …

Red Snow and Other Parables from Nature

Mrs. Alfred Gatty [Margaret Gatty] · 1868 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Bell and Daldy , 1868. Cloth. Third series of this pocket sized collection of morally didactic tales for children by Margaret Gatty. Fifth edition of this work. A charming Victorian children's book by Margaret Gatty, the third series in the original publisher's…

Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action, Adapted to the English Drama

Henry Siddons · 1807 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Richard Phillips, 1807 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with sixty-six engraved plates, this is the scarce first edition of Henry Siddons guide to gesture in theatrical performance. The scarce first edition of English actor and theatrical manager Henry Siddons'…

Die Grundsätze der freireligiösen Gemeinde zu Berlin. Zur Erinnerung an die Feier der Jugend-Weihe in der freireligiösen Gemeinde zu Berlin.

ALTMANN, Ida: · 1910 · Antiquariat Schwarz

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

Dritte Auflage. 5. und 6. Tausend. Berlin: Hoffmann u. a. o.J. [1910]. 8° (ca. 21 x 14 cm). (3); 15; (4); 60; 30 (2); VIII, 166 Seiten, Fraktur. Ganzleinen der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem Deckeltitel und Verzierung. Dreikant-Goldschnitt. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren und Rand…

Evolutie vandaag. Hoe de dingen ontstaan en waarom ze veranderen.

Tallon, Irene et al (red.) · 2005 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

Brussel VUBPress 2005 Softcover, 364pp., 15.5x24cm., ills. in z/w., in zeer goede staat. ISBN 9789054873969. On the Origin of Species van Darwin (1859) betekende een onstuitbare ommekeer in het denken over het leven en onszelf. Vandaag behoort de evolutietheorie onbetwistbaar t…

Discoverers: Volumes I and II Deluxe Illustrated Set

Daniel J. Boorstin · 1991 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

, Abrams, 1991., Deluxe Illustrated Set, bound cloth with orig. slipcase, 1024pp., 19x27.5cm., ills. in col. and b/w., fine set. ISBN 9780810932074. From Publishers Weekly In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discoverers , the achievements of Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Gutenberg …

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. A Complete Variorum Edition

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 304913 · 1999 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

OUP Oxford, 1999, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 318, R A Fisher's classic The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection was first published by the Oxford University Press in 1930. It was the first attempt to assess and explain Darwin's evolutionary theories in terms of the genetic p…

British Zoology. Vol. I-IV

Pennant, Thomas · 1812 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Printed for Wilkie and Robinson London xlvii, 568; vii, 451, [1]; viii, 545, [1]; xvi, 379, [1], 5 engraved titles, 294 engraved plates (3 folding). . HB. 4 vols, 8vo, cont. full polished calf, scuffed and worn (3 volumes with repairs to spines/joints), gilt-ruled borders, raise…

Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore

Kingsley, Charles · 1878 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

MacMillan and Co. London xi, 245, 12 col plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, cont. half calf, gt, teg, marbled endpapers. Slight fading to spine. Vg. Book-plate of Henry Lloyd Gibbs.. Sixth edition. This work, first published in 1855, reflects the growing interest in marine natural h…

Fantastisch! Over het universum in ons hoofd

Verburgh, Kris · 2007 · Bij tij en ontij . . . .

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Antwerpen Houtekiet Paperback, 22 cm, 576 pp. Fantastisch! gaat voor n keer niet enkel over het heelal, of Darwin, of de hersenen, maar verenigt alle drie vakgebieden in een fantastisch verhaal dat veertien miljard jaar overspant, om een antwoord te geven op de vraag: wat is het…

Ik heb nooit iets gelezen. En alle andere fragmenten

Reve, Karel van het · 2004 · Elettra Antiquariaat - Boekhandel - Verzendboekhandel

€7.50 ($8.27 | £6.26 | ¥1,320)

Amsterdam V.Oorschot 2004 382 pp 3e druk In zijn 'fragmenten', oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd in Hollands Maandblad, legde Karel van het Reve (1921-1999) invallen, gedachten en anekdotes vast over uiteenlopende zaken als God en Darwin, kruiswoordraadsels en aardgas, Russische dissi…

Krakatoa The Day The World Exploded. The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2004; HarperCollins; 448pp.; Direct uit voorraad leverbaar -- Conditie: Goed; Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society wa…

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la province du Paraguay.Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Mid- to late 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco.

AZARA, Félix de and Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de SAINT-MÉRY (translator). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

LXXX, 364, [2]; 499 pp.First edition of one of the most significant early treatises on South American zoology, which was highly regarded by Charles Darwin. The text is organised into chapters, each devoted to a different species, including tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, and chameleon…

THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WALT WHITMAN

WHITMAN, Walt · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,125.00 (€1,020.68 | £851.39 | ¥179,669)

New York & London. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press. First Edition. The Collector's Camden Edition consisting of 9 (of 10) volumes in publisher's 3/4 dark green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Copy #216 of 3…

Essai sur le principe de population.

Malthus,Thomas Robert. · 1945 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Paris, Guillaumin, 1945. LX,687 pp 1 engr. H.leather, top of spine dam.The book Essay on the Principle of Population (original title An Essay on the Principle of Population) was first published anonymously in 1798 by the publisher J. Johnson in London1. The author was quickly id…

Betrachtung Ÿber die Natur vom Herrn Karl Bonnet nach der neuesten sehr vermehrten Auflage in dessen sŠmmtlichen Werken herausgegeben von Johann Daniel Titius. Vierte Auflage. Erster und Zweyter Band. 2 Bde zus.

BONNET, Karl (Charles, (1720-1793): · 1783 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 550.00 (€594.99 | $655.80 | £496.31 | ¥104,735)

Leipzig, bey Johann Friedrich Junius, 1783, in-8vo, Frontispice-portrait de lÕauteur (Rasp sculp.) + XLVI + 438 S. / XVI + 534 S. + XVIII (Verzeichnis) + 4 Bl. (Register), leicht stockfleckig, gest. Ex-Libris ÔLe Chevalier Charles de BohrÕ, schšne Original-BuntpapiervorsŠtze, Or…

Here On Earth An Argument For Hope

Tim Flannery · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Text Publishing Company 2010 Paperback, 336pp. We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our mi…

The Territory

Ernstine, Hill · 1951 · Ariel Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Angus & Robertson Story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in Australian tropic north. Cattle-droving over unknown wildernesses, tragic encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were cut off from the world and …

Hymenopterorum ichneumonibus affinium, monographiae, genera Europaea et species illustrantes. Volumen Primum, Ichneumonidum Braconoideorum et Alysioideorum, tum evanialium monographias complectens. [AND] Volumen secundum, Pteromalinorum, Codrinorum et Dryineorum monographias complectens.

Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. [D.] · 1834 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. C. Cotta, 1834. 8vo (21.1 x 12.4 cm). 784 pp. (xii, 320; [iv], 448). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Edges speckled red. = A complete copy of one of the major contributions to entomology by the German natura…

Stones of the valley.

Symonds, W. S. · 1857 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

London, Richard Bentley, 1857. Small 8vo (16.2 x 10.1 cm). xi, 270 pp.; folded, lithographed frontispiece of the Corn-cockle Quarry, 1856; four lithographed and wood-engraved plates (one folding). Original red, blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and rich g…