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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - 1871
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The Descent of Man
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Traité sur la Vénin de la Vipere sur les poisons Americains sur le Laurier-Cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végetaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal. Différentes expériences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'Oeil
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The Malay Archipelago
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals
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The Tree. The Nature of Nature.
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A Trip to Pilawin, The Deer-Park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia, Russia
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[EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer, la formation de la Terre, l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.G[uers]
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MEMOIR'S (sic) FOR A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS. Containing The Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Dissected By The Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Englished by Alexander Pitfeild, Fellow of the Royal Society.: To Which is added an ACCOUNT of the Measure of a Degree of a great Circle of the Earth, Published by the Same Academy, and Englished By Richard Waller, S.R.S."
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TWO works bound together, as published, in original full mottled calf, with raised bands and gilt ornaments on spine.
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The Malay Archipelago
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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