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Internally quite clean with just a handful of instances of minor foxing and toning, contemporary bookstore label to front pastedown. A presentable copy. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45427513688239,"sku":"","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_0992.jpg?v=1749479971"},{"product_id":"the-various-contrivances-by-which-orchids-are-fertilised-by-insects-charles-darwin-second-edition","title":"The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, Charles Darwin. 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A very presentable copy. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45427674546351,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_1063.jpg?v=1749487888"},{"product_id":"the-movements-and-habits-of-climbing-plants-charles-darwin-second-edition-first-thus","title":"The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, Charles Darwin. Second Edition (First Thus).","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eThe Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, Charles Darwin\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eSecond edition, being the first edition in book form, later printing (fourth thousandth). Originally issued as a standalone volume in 1875, this expanded version of Darwin’s earlier paper explores the mechanisms by which climbing plants adapt and thrive, offering further insight into his broader theories of natural selection and adaptation.  (Freeman 846)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eLondon: John Murray, 1888. Publisher's original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. ix, [1 errata], 208 + 32 ads (dated January 1889). A very good copy. Minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards with a bit of wear to spine ends. Front hinge neatly reinforced with archival adhesive, bookplate neatly removed from front pastedown, scattered light foxing and toning (mostly to the ads), last page of ads loose. Else internally quite clean. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45433537298607,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_1140.jpg?v=1749655922"},{"product_id":"the-variation-of-animals-and-plants-under-domestication-charles-darwin-first-edition","title":"The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin. First Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eThe Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin   \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFirst edition, first issue of Darwin's sequel to On the Origin of Species and featuring his first published use of the term \"survival of the fittest.\" Bound in the original, unrestored cloth. First issue points include the one line publisher's imprint at the spine heels, 5 errata on 6 lines in Vol. I, and 9 errata on 7 lines in Vol. II. Complete with 32 pages of ads dated April 1867 at rear of vol. I, 2 pages of ads dated February 1868 at rear of vol. II (as issued) and 43 in-text wood engravings.  (Freeman 877)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLondon: John Murray, 1868. Publisher's original green cloth, ruled in blind with the spines lettered in gilt; pp. viii, 411, [1] + 32 ads; viii, 486 + [2 ads]. An about fair copy. Covers worn and rubbed with several corners exposed, volume 2 rebacked with the cloth split along the front joint. Volumes are variously overopened, inexpertly reinforced with archival adhesive, three hinges reinforced with tape, several pages and gatherings a touch offset, first blank of volume 1 detached, contemporary signature to the title page of volume 1 and the contents of volume 2, bookplate affixed to each front pastedown, else fairly clean internally. An admittedly fairly rough copy, although affordable. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45436298199215,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_1226.jpg?v=1749740430"},{"product_id":"annals-of-the-lowell-observatory-percival-lowell","title":"Annals of the Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell.","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eAnnals of the Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eFirst editions, complete in three volumes. Percival Lowell's fame and notoriety arose from his claims about the existence of intelligent life on Mars, based on what he regarded as irrefutable evidence for a network of canals on the surface of the planet visible from the Lowell Observatory. He established the Observatory expressly for Martian research but made other studies there as well. These three volumes are a result of years of observations of the planets Jupiter and Mars and the data on canals can also be found within these volumes. The contents of the Annals are as follows: \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eVolume I: Annals of the Lowell Observatory Volume I. Observations of the Planet Mars During the Opposition of 1894-5 Made at Flagstaff, Arizona. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1898. pp. xii, 391, 21 plates + text illustrations.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eVolume II: Annals of the Lowell Observatory Volume II. I. Observations of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites 1894 and 1895 II. Observations of the Planet Mars 1896 and 1897 Made at Flagstaff, Arizona, And Tacubaya, Mexico. Cambridge: The University Press, 1900. pp. xi 523p, 41 plates + text illustrations.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eVolume III: Annals of the Lowell Observatory Volume III Observations of the Planet Mars During the Oppositions of 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1903 Made at Flagstaff, Arizona. NP: Percival Lowell, 1905. pp. xiv, 293 pages with additional 60-page glossy supplement containing extensive illustrations, 18 plates + text illustrations.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eVolumes I and II were issued with printed paper wraps that have been bound into the later hardcover cloth covers, spines lettered in gilt. Vol III is in the original hard cover, paper-covered binding as issued. Front hinge is starting at bottom, spine is slightly sun-toned. Contents of all three volumes are bright, clean, devoid of foxing or markings. Owner's signature on the flyleaves of volume 1 and 2. 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The volume presents finely executed plates by Joseph Bridgham \u0026amp; L.C.C. Krieger, illustrating a wide range of larger fungi, accompanied by descriptive text by the noted mycologist Edward Angus Burt. Intended as both a scientific reference and a visual record, the work reflects the high standards of early 20th-century botanical publishing associated with Harvard’s botanical collections. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eCambridge, MA: The Farlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University, 1929. Limited to 500 copies, featuring 103 color plates, including one fold-out. Folio, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, in the original glassine jacket.  A fine copy, the cloth exceptionally fresh and bright, gilt sharp, contents clean and crisp throughout with the typical faint offsetting to plates, tiny discoloration to edge of text block. The fragile original jacket fairly well preserved with a tear near the spine heel and just two closed tears to rear.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46686264295599,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_6947_d3a4cf8f-17f9-4d6b-8969-8a9ec5930477.png?v=1774281140"},{"product_id":"almagestum-novum-giovanni-battista-riccioli-first-edition","title":"Almagestum Novum, Giovanni Battista Riccioli. First Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eAlmagestum Novum, Giovanni Battista Riccioli  \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eFirst edition of Riccioli’s monumental astronomical compendium, one of the great scientific books of the seventeenth century. Issued in two substantial folio volumes, the Almagestum Novum brings together the astronomical learning of the age in an ambitious synthesis at once observational, mathematical, historical, and polemical. Particularly celebrated are the two large folding lunar maps after Francesco Maria Grimaldi, engraved by Domenico Fontana and bound in the first volume, among the most important early selenographic images of the period. The work is further embellished with engraved frontispieces by Francesco Curti, dedication leaves with engraved arms, and numerous text illustrations throughout.  \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003e\"Riccioli's scientific career epitomized the conflict between the old astronomy and the new: as a Jesuit committed to church doctrine, Riccioli was among the most vehement opponents of Copernican and Galilean theory, but as an astronomer, Riccioli recognized that Copernican theory provided the simplest and best mathematical model of the solar system. His Almagestum novum was the first to state that no water existed on the moon and it also introduced the tradition of naming lunar formations after prominent scientists and philosophers.\" (Norman, 1826)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eBologna: Heirs of Vittorio Benatio, 1651. Complete in two volumes, folio, bound in contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript spine titles reading “Ricciolo \/ Almagestũ,” with volume designations and early shelf markings to upper spine. Engraved frontispieces in each volume by Francesco Curti; dedication leaves with engraved arms; numerous text illustrations throughout; and two large folding lunar maps after Francesco Maria Grimaldi, engraved by Domenico Fontana and bound in the first volume. Pagination: Vol. I: [12], xlvii, [1], 763, [1]; Vol. II: [6], xviii, 675, [1]. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eBindings firm and secure, the structure firm and well-preserved, suggesting early or minor reinforcement. Light general wear and rubbing to vellum with scattered soiling. With later institutional stamps of an Italian Liceo Ginnasiale (“Principe Umberto”) to the title of the first volume and dedication leaf of the second. Second volume dedication toned and dust soiled, light chipping and worm tracks to endpapers, rest of text presents with scattered toning and dust soiling, foxing, wear and a few dampstains, else internally remarkably clean and well-preserved. A very nice copy of this landmark work. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46697382936751,"sku":null,"price":17500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_7108.png?v=1774279296"},{"product_id":"the-moon-james-nasmyth-and-james-carpenter-second-edition","title":"The Moon, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter. 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Unable to achieve the necessary detail through direct photography, Nasmyth constructed intricate plaster models of the moon based on telescopic observations, which were then photographed under carefully controlled lighting to simulate the effects of solar illumination.  \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eThese images, reproduced through a combination of Woodburytypes, heliotypes, and other early photomechanical processes, were widely regarded by contemporaries as strikingly “truthful” representations of the lunar surface, lending the work considerable scientific authority at the time. The volume thus stands at a pivotal moment in the history of both astronomy and photography, blending observational science, model-making, and emerging reproductive technologies in a single, highly original synthesis.  The second edition is generally preferred, containing an expanded and refined suite of plates, and remains a cornerstone work in the history of selenography and early scientific illustration.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eLondon: John Murray, 1874. Original gold embossed blue boards; pp. xvi, 189 + ads. A very good copy. Minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards with a touch of fraying to extremities, neat repair to spine heel. Hinges starting, overopened at points with one gathering loose. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, scattered foxing, mostly to the margins with the plates themselves clean, typical cockling to leaves. 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Publisher's original illustrated wraps; pp. 160. In very good condition, showing light shelfwear to the wraps. Internally clean. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46886581010607,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_8008.png?v=1778172445"},{"product_id":"lsd-my-problem-child-albert-hofmann-first-edition","title":"LSD: My Problem Child, Albert Hofmann. First Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eLSD: My Problem Child, Albert Hofmann \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFirst edition, first printing of Hofmann's fascinating account of his discovery of LSD – the systematic research, the incredible accidents and the frightening personal experiment that was the first LSD trip. Hoffman also discusses the complexity of the moral dilemma posed by a substance that offers such promise yet carries within it such danger, along with detailing the societal and philosophical effects of his discovery. Translated by Jonathan Ott. Uncommon in the first edition.  \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eNew York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. Publisher's original black cloth, spine lettered in orange; pp. xiii, [1], 209, [1]. A near fine copy in a very good, unclippped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards with a bump to top edge of text block. Internally clean and fine. Jacket shows light general shelfwear and rubbing. 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Paley famously uses the Watchmaker Analogy to argue that the immense complexity, order, and purpose found in the natural world serve as definitive empirical evidence for the existence of an intelligent, benevolent Creator. Charles Darwin took its arguments seriously and responded to them; evolutionary biologists such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins also responded to such ideas by referencing Paley's book. In November 1859, the month that the Origin was published, Darwin wrote to John Lubbock: \"I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than Paley's 'Natural Theology'. I could almost formerly have said it by heart\". Appropriately, Darwin prefixed to the Origin a quotation from Paley. A very important volume in the history of science, religion and ideas, rare in the trade. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"left\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 align=\"left\"\u003eLondon: Printed for Robert Faulder, 1802. 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A very good copy in a good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, light shelfwear and sunning to boards. Owner's name to half-title, else internally clean with a closed tear to the last two pages. Jacket shows general wear with tape reinforcements. Presents well in archival mylar. \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163516256431,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_92792_71c3cafa-47df-4d42-87b6-5235e4dd7fd0.jpg?v=1783699217"},{"product_id":"on-formally-undecidable-propositions-kurt-godel-first-american-edition","title":"On Formally Undecidable Propositions..., Kurt Godel. 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Publisher's yellow paper boards with blue cloth spine, gilt title on spine, blue paper label on front board; pp. viii, 72. About very good. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square. Minimal shelfwear to boards, with scattered toning and rubbing to boards. Owner's name to front pastedown, else internally clean. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163692712111,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_9286_afb1803f-b8e7-4e0a-9358-18ec555ec02f.jpg?v=1783705383"},{"product_id":"a-photographic-atlas-of-selected-regions-of-the-milky-way-edward-emerson-barnard-first-edition-albert-g-ingallss-annotated-association-copy","title":"A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Edward Emerson Barnard. First Edition. Albert G. 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Calvert, Barnard's longtime assistant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the working copy of Albert G. Ingalls (1888-1958), the influential Scientific American editor whose articles, columns, and three-volume Amateur Telescope Making helped establish amateur telescope making as a serious movement in the United States. Ingalls has signed the first free endpaper in pencil, and numerous leaves and charts bear his penciled notes, additions, identifications, circles, and hatching. These are substantive working annotations rather than casual ownership marks: Ingalls repeatedly engages with Barnard's mapped dark nebulae and adds observational or interpretive information to the printed charts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary group of associated material remains with the set. The front endpaper bears Ingalls's late penciled note to his wife, Frances (\"Frannie\"), suggesting that the two volumes be offered to the noted amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Henry E. 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Part I: Photographs and Descriptions, pp. vi, 32, [102], with portrait frontispiece and original tissue guard, full-page halftone of the Bruce photographic telescope, and 51 gelatin silver photographs mounted on linen. Part II: Charts and Tables, pp. [vi], [200], comprising 50 charts and 50 accompanying tables. Publisher's original tan-brown cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eA very good copy. Bindings remain sound, with general shelfwear, rubbing and scattered scuffs to the cloth, and light wear to corners and spine ends. Text leaves show mild age toning; the portrait has left the usual offset on the facing title page. The mounted photographs remain strong and well preserved. Ingalls's pencil annotations appear throughout both volumes. The laid-in photograph and article extracts show expected handling wear, toning, edge wear, and the publication markings described above. Complete, uncommon, and greatly distinguished by its direct association with one of the central figures in twentieth-century amateur astronomy.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47262871716015,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_96332.jpg?v=1785257993"},{"product_id":"the-description-and-use-of-a-complete-sett-or-case-of-pocket-instruments-william-webster-fourth-edition","title":"The Description and Use of a Complete Sett or Case of Pocket-Instruments, William Webster. Fourth Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eThe Description and Use of a Complete Sett or Case of Pocket-Instruments: \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eContaining the Construction of the Several Lines Laid Down on the Plain-Scale, and Sector; with Their Application, in Variety of Mathematical Problems\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 align=\"center\"\u003eWilliam Webster\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFourth edition of this practical Georgian manual to the construction and use of pocket drawing and calculating instruments, including the plain scale, sector, protractor, and related devices. Webster explains both the instruments themselves and their application to geometry, surveying, navigation, and other mathematical problems. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLondon: Printed for H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, L. Hawes and Co., R. Horsfield, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, J. Pritchard, C. and R. Ware, and W. Nicol, 1768. Octavo; contemporary full brown calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine in six compartments with five raised bands and a morocco lettering label; pp. [viii], 61, [1 ads]. Illustrated with four folding engraved plates: an unnumbered instrument plate facing the title and Plates 1–3 at the rear. All four required plates are present; Plate 2, however, is missing a portion of its lower section. Binding rubbed and scuffed, with minor cracking along the front joint, boards bowed. Contents toned with traces of foxing and soiling. Folding plates creased as usual, with Plate 2 defective as described. Early ownership inscription of Charles Apelquist, dated 1782, on the title page. A later presentation inscription on the second blank, dated 1825. 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Published from 1878 to 1882, The Selenographical Journal records an extraordinary period in the history of astronomy, when the possibility of observable changes to the lunar surface remained a subject of serious scientific debate. As the Linda Hall Library succinctly notes, “The moon acquired its own journal in 1878.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEstablished under William Radcliffe Birt and edited by Edmund Neison (later Edmund Neville Nevill), the journal sought to coordinate lunar observers, regularize nomenclature and observational methods, and circulate new maps, drawings, and photographic evidence. One of its most prominent controversies concerned Hermann Klein’s supposed discovery of a new crater near Hyginus, represented here by a diagram printed in blue. The set is illustrated throughout with numerous separately inserted lunar maps, observational drawings, diagrams, and mounted photographic plates, including a carbon-process photograph of the Moon from a negative by A. Ainslie Common, together with other mounted lunar photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon: Warren Hall \u0026amp; James J. Lovitt, 1879–1883 [individual issues dated April 2, 1878–December 1882]. Five journal volumes bound in four physical volumes, with Volumes I and II bound together. Vol. I: nos. 1–10; pp. 12 “Memoranda”; iv, 40, Vol. II: nos. 11–22; pp. iv, 96. Vol. III: nos. 23–35; pp. iv, [2 Members’ List], 104. Vol. IV: nos. 36–47; pp. iv, 96. Vol. V: nos. 48–59; pp. iv, 96. A complete consecutive text run of 59 numbered issues, including no. 43, dated August 24, 1881. The textual run has been collated issue by issue and is complete. Illustrated throughout with numerous separately inserted lunar maps, observational drawings, diagrams, and mounted photographic plates; no definitive plate census has been located. Bound in dark blue half leather over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands, gilt rules and titles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very good set. Bindings remain sound. General rubbing and shelfwear to leather and marbled boards, with wear to edges and corners; the spine of the combined Volumes I–II is more heavily rubbed with its gilt dulled. Internally generally clean, with occasional light toning and traces of foxing. Several inserted illustrations that extend beyond the text block show corresponding marginal wear. One mounted lunar photograph has a short tear at its lower-left corner; the remaining photographed plates and mounts are generally well preserved. 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