Darwinia
At anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and death, publishers have a field day, now and in the past. So much so, that I have made a separate list of biographies of Darwin, his family and (when the focus is on the link) his contemporaries.
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Price £
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Brent, Peter
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Charles Darwin, publ. Hamlyn, 1983, 536pp. PB, in good condition, lightly worn. A clear, attractive scholarly account. Well indexed.
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£3
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Darwin, Frances (ed)
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, Dover reprint, 1958 of 1892 publication. 365pp + adverts 16pp. PB. Corners bumped, inner end papers removed, front and back. Otherwise, in good condition.
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£4
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Dempster, WJ
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The Illlustrious Hunter and the Darwins, publ. Book Guild, Sussex, 2005, 1st edition. 198pp. PB in fine condition. Concerns the thinkers, before and contemporaneous with Darwin, who developed the concept of evolution – Hunter, Lamarck, Cuvier, Matthew and Blyth – and why they remain less well known.
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£6
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Moorehead, Alan
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Darwin and the Beagle, publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1969, 1st edition, 2nd impression. 280pp. HB, lightly bumped, binding sound, dustjacket with minor marginal tears, otherwise in very good condition. Abundantly illustrated popular account by the great historian of exploration.
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£12
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Pearson, Hesketh
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Doctor Darwin, publ. JM Dent, London, 1930, 1st edition. 242pp. Corners bumped, pages age toned and occasional foxed. Binding sound. In good condition. About Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, founder of the Lunar Society, polymath and an early evolutionist. Pearson was a greaty X3 grandson of Erasmus Darwin and had access to family archives.
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£12
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Quammen, David
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The Reluctant Mr.Darwin; an Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, publ. Norton, London, 2006, 1st edition. 304pp. HB, in new condition with dustjacket. A well informed account written for a general audience.
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Seward, AC (ed)
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Darwin and Modern Science; Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species, publ. Cambridge UP, 1909, 1st edition. 595pp. Corners slightly bumped, spine ends frayed, slight age toning of text, binding sound. Generally, in good condition. 29 wide-ranging essays, well indexed, by eminent scholars of the day. The majority regarding botany or aspects of human development, but including papers on geology, paleontology and astronomy.
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£50
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