Darwin Horace (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 40pp, stapled self-cover. Scarce 1978 issue of this review of Black American literature. Includes articles on Black film. Unmarked copy, light wear and toning, small darkened patch to back cover where mailing label once was. Not Signed.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 251pp. With 100 illustrations. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Light rubbing of the binding, light spotting to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper; overall, this book is in good plus condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good fresh tight copy, light wear to wrapper edges, small tear to top edge of front panel alongside spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This work was written by five experts on the game of golf and presents a most authoritative and valuable instruction book. The book contains photographs, illustrations, and an index. With fold-outs. Dust jacket is in fresh mylar. Some notes are on the FFEP: otherwise, this copy is clean and solid.

Condition: Fine. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine condition (no dust jacket-as issued?). Binding completely clean, with gilt spine lettering and cover decoration quite bright. Former owner's signature in ink on the front inner cover. Internally unmarked. A very nice copy of an underrated book.

Condition: Good. 1931, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp251, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 251 pages with many photo plates of golf strokes and positions, also illustrations in the text, two-tone cloth boards with buckram spine, gilt titles, , some ingrained dust to covers, contents all clean and fresh to handle, very good. Octavo. undated c1931-36. *Looks at ladies golf in detail as well as the golf strokes the major championships and tournaments with winners, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered gilt at the spine. Stroke play by Joyce amd Roger Wethered; Match and medal play, practice, middle-aged golf, watching for profit and Famous courses by Bernard Darwin; History and literature, by Horace Hutchinson; Golf architecture and green-keeping, by T.C. Simpson; with one hundred illustrations. Neat initials on front endpaper, otherwise very good indeed in somewhat tanned and used good only d/w chipped at edges with loss. Front panel of jacket in fairlygood order showing golfer teeing off (onset photo).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered gilt at the spine. Stroke play by Joyce amd Roger Wethered; Match and medal play, practice, middle-aged golf, watching for profit and Famous courses by Bernard Darwin; History and literature, by Horace Hutchinson; Golf architecture and green-keeping, by T.C. Simpson; with one hundred illustrations. Neat initials on front endpaper, otherwise very good in somewhat tanned and used, yet complete, close very good dust jacket.

First edition, deluxe issue of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half green morocco over cloth. Inscribed by Roger Wethered in the year of publication, "Hope this will help you to beat Harry! Roger Wethered 1931." Illustrated with plates, which some folding from 100 photographs. In near fine condition.   "The Game of Golf Lonsdale Library, Vol. IX is an outstanding symposium on the game" (Murdoch 843).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1894 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 36 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 36 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942,Powderly, Terence Vincent, 1849-1924. Abraham Lincoln,Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903. Horace Greeley,Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Louis Agassiz,Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924. Charles Darwin.

2 pp. manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of an octavo-size bifolium of notepaper, 180 x 115 mm, with Horace Darwin's letterhead 'The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge'; dated 5 May 1903, the letter is addressed 'Dear Sir Joseph' (i.e. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker) and is signed in full at the foot of the second side 'Horace Darwin'; the writer thanks Hooker for his congratulations (by inference, on his becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, although this event is not referred to explicitly); mounted on a section cut from an album page; some toning from the old glue on the verso, else clean and legible. An unpublished and hitherto unrecorded piece of private correspondence between Cambridge scientist Horace Darwin (1851-1928) - the son of Charles Darwin - and the eminent botanist, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) - Charles Darwin's closest friend. Horace thanks Hooker for congratulating him on becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, an achievement which elicits fond memories of his father: foralthough he had passed away more than twenty years earlier, we sense that Horace's emotional and deeply sincere words sum up accurately and concisely how much Charles Darwin meant to both men - as a proud and loving father, as a loyal friend, and as a brilliant intellect. 'Dear Sir Joseph, George [Horace's older brother] has shown me your letter and I wish to write and thank you for your congratulations. I have wished so much that I could have seen my Father & Mother's pleasure & it adds to my pleasure to know that my Father's best friend is glad. My wife and I are sorry that you are so far from well but we hope you may be able to get to George's later & that we may see you then. Ever sincerely, Horace Darwin'. Horace's obvious attachment to and respect for his father is to a large extent explained in this extract fromThe Darwin Correspondence Project: Darwin and Fatherhood (University of Cambridge): 'The close relationships that developed with many of his adult children were highly prized by Darwin.So, how exceptional was Darwin as a father? In most respects the concerns and beliefs that Darwin expressed about fatherhood were ones that were very typical of men from similar backgrounds in the mid-Victorian period. He frequently discussed his own, and other people?s, children in letters to friends and relatives. He sought to ensure that his children would be successful when measured according to conventional norms of professional middle-class behaviour. The importance that Darwin attached to his paternal responsibilities and the enjoyment that he gained from his relationships with each of his sons and daughters were typical. However, the characteristic that made Darwin unusual when compared to his neighbours and friends was the nature of his work. As a gentleman scientist who worked from home and was frequently not well enough to go to public events, his life was centred on his home and family to an exceptional extent. His wife, children and servants thus contributed to his research and writing, and the practical and intellectual consequences of his scientific work were central to the relationships that he formed with his children.' Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854?1924), "The Briars," Mornington, Victoria (Australia); àBeckett family, Melbourne (by descent).

A folio sheet of Whatman hand-made paper, folded to four pages, the announcement on the first two pages, signed at the top margin of the first side by GEORGE V and on the verso by EDWARD P, both signatures lithographed, dated June 3, 1918, the sheet now folded horizontally, with a printed leaf from the Central Chancery at St. James's Palace, and the posting envelope to Sir Horace Darwin K.B.E., The Orchard, Cambridge PLUS a typed letter signed by DAVID LLOYD GEORGE from 10 Downing Street : Sir, I have the honour to inform you that the King has been pleased to approve that you should receive the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of the valuable services you have rendered to the nation in connection with the war.', dated May 27, 1918, with postal envelope. *SIR HORACE DARWIN, (1851-1928), born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, and the youngest of their seven children who survived to adulthood. He was educated at a private school in Woodbridge, Suffolk, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1874. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885 and was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was knighted in 1918.