T. H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake by Huxley, T. H. ; Huxley, Julian (editor) - 1936

London: The Pilot Press, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Bookstore label, inside front cover. Foxing, front and back inside covers. Crack starting rear, interior spine. Text very good.

New York: Harper And Brothers, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Viii, 257 Pp. Green Cloth. First Edition Stated. . Wear, Small, Frays At Corners, Spine Gilt Worn Away, No Marks.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. Very good +. Cloth, clean unmarked text, very good+ copy, some wear to the tips of the book's covers, no dust jacket.

UsedGood. edge wear and light discoloration with age

London: Pilot Press, 1947. First Edition . Quarter Cloth. Very Good. Professionally rebound in quarter blue cloth, boards covered with paper printed with a repeated pattern in blue, maroon and white, titled in gold on a black leather label, 235pp. The first part of the book deals with the historical and critical aspectsleading to the rise of an evolutionary theory of ethics. Two lectures are reproduced on the subject of "Evolution and Ethics", one by T H Huxley given in 1893 and the other by Julian Huxley given in 1943. Condition of the binding is "new", condition of the text is vg although the paper used was still only war-time quality.

N.Y. & London: Harper (1947) 1st edition.. 8vo viii+257. Ink name on front free endpaper and one corner bumped. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper internally mended with tape. Reproduces the Romanes Lectures given by T.H. in 1893 and by Julian in 1943 on the subject of Evolution and Ethics. , together with some other essays by Julian on the same subject..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Illustrated with 12 plates and a colour frontispiece, octavo, pp viii, 372, a map at the rear, slight foxing and age-toning but otherwise generally clean internally, blue cloth very faded and marked with some wear, the spine badly torn at the upper joint. [The ship saw much service in the Greeek War of Independence, the East Indies and China Station, and the first Anglo-China War before being converted to a survey ship to Australia and New Guinea. The captain on this five year voyage was Owen Stanley. Also aboard were John Thomson as Surgeon, Thomas Henry Huxley as Assistant Surgeon ("surgeon's mate", but in practice marine naturalist), John MacGillivray as botanist and Oswald Walters Brierly as artist. T. H. Huxley established his scientific reputation by the papers he wrote on this voyage, leading to his election as fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. Rattlesnake was the ship that rescued Barbara Crawford Thompson, who had been shipwrecked on Prince… Read More

London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1947. Octavo, not illustrated, pp viii, 235, endpapers age-toned, otherwise quite clean internally, blue cloth slightly faded and worn, in a rather poor dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.

The Pilit Press, 1947, Lodon.. 23x15. Tela editorial. 235 pgs. Texto en ingles. 661761

John Johnson At the University Press, Oxford for the Oxford Society, 1937. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Large Quarto size (4to). in yellow and black printed stiff card covers, 62pp, approx., 22pp plates, 10pp ads at rear __CONDITION : VERY GOOD+ (small spot of mild soil to top corner tip of front cover, neatly repaired tear to spine, covers slightly dusty, mild foxing to covers and preliminary leaves and otherwise a very clean and tight copy). ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS