Search Results: Titles starting with V from Timeless Tales Rare Books

1st issue with 5-line errata in volume I and 7-line errata in volume II
2 volumes, Octavo, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1868. This remarkable work by Darwin contains the first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest" originally coined by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (1864).Wood-engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at end of volume II, bound without the 32 pp. advertisements at end of volume I.
Contemporary tan half calf, spines with green and brown labels and splendid gilt decoration, a superb clean copy.

4to,280x210 mm. Contemporary binding on pig skin. Gold titles on spine. Pages [50], 407, [1]. Engraved frontispiece vignette, twelve folded engraved plates, headpieces, historiated initials engraved by John Pine. A very good first edition copy with wide margins of the important introduction to Newton's natural philosophy. Pemberton was invited to supervise the editing of the third edition of Principia Mathematica, which appeared in 1726. The work is illustrated with several fold-out diagrams explaining key scientific principles, including Newton's celestial mechanics plans showing the orbits of the six known planets around the sun.

First Edition, Large Folio, recently bound in beautiful half-leather marbled boards, with gilted spine. With the magnificent views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Kidron Valley, etc. in stunning engraved, hand-colored plates, with virtually no blemish. Text in English and French; Overall, a very nice and wide-margined copy. German-Italian orientalist artist Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) was the most accurate artist making drawings of the Near East before David Roberts.

Rare first edition of Cooke's views of the London bridges, Folio, 48x34 cm, original green textured cloth lettered in gilt; All 12 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece are present with marginal foxing and mild toning to a few; vi, 24 pp. With scientific and historical notices of the two bridges by George Rennie. The cloth is slightly worn out at the spine, portions of spine strip detaching; the inside of the book is in very good condition (see pictures).