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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology.... London: John Murray, 1845. 8° (title very lightly discoloured). Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with black lettering-piece, narrow gilt border round sides, marbled edges (somewhat rubbed). Provenance: Ernest Pode, 1883 (a present from his uncle, T. J. F. Hickes) -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, Darwin's great-grandson; a gift to his doctor). Second edition. Freeman 14.
DARWIN, Charles. The Life and Letters ... including an Autobiographical Chapter, edited by his son Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, 1887. 3 volumes, 8°. Frontispiece portraits. Original cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines a little torn and soiled). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR (inscription on an endpaper in vol.I 'J. D. Duff from F. Darwin Nov. 19 1887') -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, Darwin's great-grandson; a gift to his doctor).
With 5 others comprising another set of the Life and Letters and Emma Darwin. A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (London, 1915, 2 vols.) (9)
DARWIN, Charles. The Life and Letters ... including an Autobiographical Chapter, edited by his son Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, 1887. 3 volumes, 8°. Frontispiece portraits. Original cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines a little torn and soiled). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR (inscription on an endpaper in vol.I 'J. D. Duff from F. Darwin Nov. 19 1887') -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, Darwin's great-grandson; a gift to his doctor).
With 5 others comprising another set of the Life and Letters and Emma Darwin. A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (London, 1915, 2 vols.) (9)
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