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Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Special Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1894, engraved illustrations to text, a little spotting and soiling, ink bookshop stamp and old signature to half-title, small institutional blindstamp at foot of title and bookplate and press mark ticket to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, large 8vo, together with Wilks (Rev. W., editor), Report of the Third International Conference 1986 on Genetics; Hybridisation (The Cross-Breeding of Genera or Species), The Cross-Breeding of Varieties, and General Plant-Breeding, [1907], colour and black & white plates and illustrations, ex-library with occasional ink stamps, library labels and marks to endpapers and spine, contemporary cloth, rubbed, original printed upper wrapper retained, 8vo, plus Pearson (Karl), The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton 3 volumes bound in 4, volume 1 re-issue & volumes 2-4 1st editions, Cambridge University Press, 1920-30, plates and illustrations, volume 1 with hinges partly cracked, modern cloth, original wrappers retained (old repairs to rear wrapper and enclosing folding charts), volume 2 original buckram, rubbed, volumes 3 & 4 original cloth in dust jackets, a little frayed, small 4to, plus other mostly 20th-century cloth-bound books of genetics, biology, medicine, chemistry, etc. (6 shelves)