CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray 1859. 8° in-12s (200 x 124mm). Folding lithographic diagram. Publisher's ads at end dated June 1859. (Half title delicate at hinge with two splits, but without loss, half-title and title with light vertical creases towards fore-edge.) Original publisher's blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt-decorated, Freeman binding variant a, no priority established (corners lightly bumped, front hinge very slightly cracked, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Hunter (ink ownership inscription dated 1860 to title) -- J. Graham Kerr (blindstamp to f.f.e.p. and half-title) -- John G. Kerr (very small printed booklabel to half-title). FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY' (Grolier Science). Sir (John) Graham Kerr (1869-1957), was an explorer, zoologist and politician. While still a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Kerr joined an Argentine expedition (1889-1891) to survey the Pilcomayo from the Parana to the Bolivian frontier, publishing his account A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco in 1950. As Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University, Kerr published a series of zoological works aimed at medical students, including Evolution (1926). 'His later work on the lower vertebrates ... led him to abandon the generally accepted view that the legs of land vertebrates had evolved out of the paired fins of fishes' and instead proffered the view that 'the simple styliform limb diverged up two lines, one leading to the development of paired fins, the other to the development of jointed limbs' (ODNB). Dibner Heralds 199; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Grolier Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM344b.
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . London: W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray 1859. 8° in-12s (200 x 124mm). Folding lithographic diagram. Publisher's ads at end dated June 1859. (Half title delicate at hinge with two splits, but without loss, half-title and title with light vertical creases towards fore-edge.) Original publisher's blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt-decorated, Freeman binding variant a, no priority established (corners lightly bumped, front hinge very slightly cracked, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Hunter (ink ownership inscription dated 1860 to title) -- J. Graham Kerr (blindstamp to f.f.e.p. and half-title) -- John G. Kerr (very small printed booklabel to half-title). FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY' (Grolier Science). Sir (John) Graham Kerr (1869-1957), was an explorer, zoologist and politician. While still a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Kerr joined an Argentine expedition (1889-1891) to survey the Pilcomayo from the Parana to the Bolivian frontier, publishing his account A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco in 1950. As Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University, Kerr published a series of zoological works aimed at medical students, including Evolution (1926). 'His later work on the lower vertebrates ... led him to abandon the generally accepted view that the legs of land vertebrates had evolved out of the paired fins of fishes' and instead proffered the view that 'the simple styliform limb diverged up two lines, one leading to the development of paired fins, the other to the development of jointed limbs' (ODNB). Dibner Heralds 199; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Grolier Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM344b.
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