Darwin (Charles)

Insectivorous Plants, first edition, 1875; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vols., second edition, fourth thousand, 1875; A Naturalist's Voyage, fourteenth thousand, 1879; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, third thousand, bookplate to front pastedown, 1881; The Origin of Species, sixth edition (the first to use the word evolution), twenty-fourth thousand, folding lithographic plate, 1882; numerous wood-engraved illustrations, bound lacking half-titles and publisher's catalogues, significant spotting and browning to preliminaries and titles, all uniformly bound in half calf by Mudie, over marbled paper boards, spines gilt-tooled with morocco labels, worn and scuffed, some cracking to spines, 8vo, John Murray; [with] On the Origin of Species, new edition, ‘from the sixth English edition’, contemporary cloth, title label, New York, 1883, and 2 others relating to Darwin (9)