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DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle ... from 1832 to 1836 . London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8° (235 x 146mm), 2 folding engraved maps, 4 wood-engravings in text, 2 series of advertisements by Colburn inserted at end (map of the Keeling Islands slightly spotted and affected by long but clean tear, offsetting from maps.) Uncut in original blue cloth, blind-panelled covers, spine lettered in gilt (front inner hinges slightly split). Provenance: William Brown Edinburgh (bookseller's label). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, printed from the same sheets as volume III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle , but with preliminaries [i-iv] cancelled and [v-vi] discarded. Freeman 11a. Together with 7 other works by Darwin, comprising: On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by Insects. London: John Murray 1862. 8°, folding wood-engraved plate, illustrations, advertisements dated December 1861 at rear. (Thumb soiled.) Contemporary plum cloth (spine frayed and torn across, corners worn). FIRST EDITION. Freeman 800a. The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication. London: John Murray 1868. 2 volumes, 8°, wood-engravings (Titles spotted.) Original green cloth (dent in spine of vol. I, corners bumped, rear inner hinges of vol. II badly split, endpaper creased). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 5-line errata in vol. I and 7-line errata in vol. II. Freeman 877. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex . London: John Murray 1871. 2 volumes, 8°, wood-engravings, with half-titles, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue, both titles dated 1871. Freeman 937. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals . London: John Murray 1872. 8°, 7 heliotype plates, 3 folding, wood-engravings, original green cloth (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION, second issue with last signatures 2B 1 and 2C 4. Freeman 1142. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom . London: John Murray 1876. 8°, tables, 3-line errata slip (title spotted), original green cloth (extremities rubbed, spine torn at head, inner hinges broken). FIRST EDITION. Freeman 1249. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species . London: John Murray 1877. 8° (Z4 torn at margin), original green cloth (spine frayed at head and a little darkened). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO WILLIAM OGLE (1827-1912) with publisher's printed slip, 'FROM THE AUTHOR', the name 'W. Ogle' inscribed on slip in pencil in Darwin's hand. A physician and naturalist, and Superintendent of Statistics to the Registrar-General, Ogle is particularly remembered for having facetiously advised Darwin to read the Origin of Species . He wrote to his friend on 23 July 1876, recounting his observations on the ways bees perforate flowers for white and blue varieties of monkshood. Over a year later, on 21 August 1877, he wrote to thank Darwin for sending Forms of Flowers , also suggesting that plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging. Freeman 1277. The Power of Movement in Plants . London: John Murray 1880. 8°, text woodcuts and diagrams, original green cloth (spine a little frayed at head and slightly darkened). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Freeman 1325. (10)