Charles Darwin's Notebooks: 1836-1844 / British Museum / Cambridge University

Charles Darwin's Notebooks: 1836-1844 / British Museum / Cambridge UniversityCharles Darwin's Notebooks: 1836 1844 Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, and Sydney Smith Published by British Museum (Natural History), Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardback, red cloth with gilt title, 4to, with 747 pages, illustrated with a few diagrams. A very good clean copy throughout no writing or anmes. Very good.

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Orcutt (1870-1953) was also the noted author of such bibliophilic classics as "The Magic of the Book: More Reminiscences and Adventures of a Bookman" (1930)

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Gilt stamped lettering on cover and spine

Birket Foster was born in North Shields

His mother Marianne Williams was a native of Newfoundland

From the series 'Contemporary Authors in Signed Limited Editions

The leather binding is in good solid condition but has a few  small library reference nubers on the spine

The land system of Belgium and Holland -- Fisher

He shows that in the reserves the king or his barons controlled not only hunting but also grazing

70 full page tissue guarded monchrome plates(I-LXX)

Binding tight and square and with all contents present including all plates