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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain [volume I of Fossil Cirripedia]. London: C. and J. Adlard for the Palaeontographical Society, 1851. 4° (286 x 218mm). 5 engraved plates by James de Carle Sowerby. 4 wood-engravinged illustrations and letterpress tables in the text. Final leaf bearing 7 lettering-pieces for other Palaeontographical Society works. (Some light, even browning, a few light marks.) Contemporary drab boards by Westleys, London, with paper lettering-piece on upper cover, unopened (rebacked in green cloth, boards lightly rubbed and bumped). Provenance: presentation copy to the Linnean Society of London (half-title inscribed in Darwin's hand 'The Linnean Society From the author'; Society accession stamp on title verso) -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor).
FIRST EDITION. UNOPENED PRESENTATION COPY TO THE LINNEAN SOCIETY BY DARWIN of volume I of Darwin's work on the Fossil Cirripedia, devoted to the Lepadidae or goose barnacles. This copy is also exceptional in retaining the printed leaf of title labels for 7 other Palaeontographical Society publications, dated 1847-1850. Bound in after the plates, this is not called for by either Freeman or Norman. A second monograph on the Fossil Cirripedia appeared in 1854. While the title-pages to the two volumes do not indicate that they form one work, Freeman notes that 'the preface to volume II states that this completes the work'. Founded in 1788, the Linnean Society remains the world's oldest extant biological society. At the time Darwin inscribed this copy of the first volume to the Society, he was yet to become a member. He was elected in 1854, and it was at a Linnean Society meeting on 1 July 1858 that his ideas on evolution were first publicly declared (published in the Society's Journal later that year, with Wallace's papers, as 'On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties'). Freeman 342; Norman 590.
A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain [volume I of Fossil Cirripedia]. London: C. and J. Adlard for the Palaeontographical Society, 1851. 4° (286 x 218mm). 5 engraved plates by James de Carle Sowerby. 4 wood-engravinged illustrations and letterpress tables in the text. Final leaf bearing 7 lettering-pieces for other Palaeontographical Society works. (Some light, even browning, a few light marks.) Contemporary drab boards by Westleys, London, with paper lettering-piece on upper cover, unopened (rebacked in green cloth, boards lightly rubbed and bumped). Provenance: presentation copy to the Linnean Society of London (half-title inscribed in Darwin's hand 'The Linnean Society From the author'; Society accession stamp on title verso) -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor).
FIRST EDITION. UNOPENED PRESENTATION COPY TO THE LINNEAN SOCIETY BY DARWIN of volume I of Darwin's work on the Fossil Cirripedia, devoted to the Lepadidae or goose barnacles. This copy is also exceptional in retaining the printed leaf of title labels for 7 other Palaeontographical Society publications, dated 1847-1850. Bound in after the plates, this is not called for by either Freeman or Norman. A second monograph on the Fossil Cirripedia appeared in 1854. While the title-pages to the two volumes do not indicate that they form one work, Freeman notes that 'the preface to volume II states that this completes the work'. Founded in 1788, the Linnean Society remains the world's oldest extant biological society. At the time Darwin inscribed this copy of the first volume to the Society, he was yet to become a member. He was elected in 1854, and it was at a Linnean Society meeting on 1 July 1858 that his ideas on evolution were first publicly declared (published in the Society's Journal later that year, with Wallace's papers, as 'On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties'). Freeman 342; Norman 590.
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