Crockett, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 0.75ʺW × 6.5ʺD × 9.5ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Textile
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- Fine-Near fine; light wear not commensurate with age and use (e.g. slight wear at sporadic spine crown/heel edges, few minor … moreFine-Near fine; light wear not commensurate with age and use (e.g. slight wear at sporadic spine crown/heel edges, few minor spots effect upper leaf edges), clean/bright text pages, strong square/tight spines, clean covers. A nice set. less
- Description
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Title: The Works of Charles Darwin.
Author: Charles Darwin, edited by Paul H. Barrett & R.B. Freeman et al.
Publisher: … more Title: The Works of Charles Darwin.
Author: Charles Darwin, edited by Paul H. Barrett & R.B. Freeman et al.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.
Origin: London.
Publication date: 1986.
Book Series: The Pickering Masters.
Description. 11615 Pp. (V1; 451 p., V2; 240 p., V3; 241-497 p., V4; 140 p., V5; 244 p., V6; 83 p., V7; 241 p., V8; 142 p., V9; 330 p., V10; 199 p., V11; 340 p., V12; 436 p., V13; 437-674 p., V14; 63 p., V15; 360 p., V16; 478 p., V17; 214 p., V18; 133 p., V19; 413 p., V20; 446 p., V21; 212 p., V22; 215-727 p., V23; 292 p., V24; 345 p., V25; 405 p., V26; 255 p., V27; 436 p., V28; 145 p., V29; 545 p. 29 volume complete set. 8vo. Green publisher cloth hardcovers, gilt stamped title over black title label on spine covers, illustrated with black/white and color plates; maps, documents, images - partial/full & multi-fold pages.
Volume Titles:
1. Diary of the Beagle.
2-3. Journal of the Beagle.
4-6. Zoology of the Beagle.
7-9. Geology of the Beagle.
10. Origin of Species - Foundations.
11-13. Cirripoedia - Lepadidae I, Ballanidae I & II.
14. Fossil Lepadidae and Fossil Balanidae.
15-16. Origin of Species - 1859, 1876.
17. Fertilization of Orchids.
18. Climbing Plants.
19-20. Variation under Domestication.
21-22. Descent of Man.
23. Expression of Emotions.
24. Insectivorous Plants.
25. Cross and Self Fertilization.
26. Different Forms of Flowers.
27. Power of Movement in Plants.
28. Formation of Vegetable Mould by Worms.
29. Erasmus, Darwin - Autobiography / Index.
Measures: .75-1.5 in each (33 in. overall) L x 6.5 D x 9.5 H in.
Approx. Weight: 52 lbs., 10 oz.
About the work and author: The set contains all the published works of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential figures of the 19th century.
About the publisher: Pickering & Chatto has been dealing in rare books for the best part of two centuries. Since 2014, based in the vestry of St. Clement's Church in the City of London, and stocks some 2000 books, principally in the fields of philosophy, social sciences, literature, science and medicine, law, politics, and women’s studies, from the fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. less
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