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DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION]. -- [CHAMBERS, Robert]. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation . London: John Churchill, 1844. 8 o. Rebound in buckram. FIRST EDITION of the first full-length exposition in English of an evolutionary theory. Garrison-Morton 218; Norman 438. -- [CHAMBERS]. Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." London: Churchill, 1845. 8 o. Rebound in buckram. FIRST EDITION of Chambers' sequel to the above. -- [DARWIN, Charles]. ROMANES, George. Mental Evolution in Animals . London, 1883. 8 o. 2 lithographed charts (one folding). Original plum cloth. FIRST EDITION. Includes Darwin's "Essay on Instinct" (pp. 353-384), part of Chapter 10 of his unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Freeman 1434; Norman 604. -- DARWIN, Charles. The Foundations of the Origin of Species, A Sketch Written in 1842 . Edited by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: University Press, 1909. Portrait frontispiece. 8 o. Original vellum-backed printed boards. Provenance : WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG (1862-1942), physicist and nobelist (tipped-in printed presentation leaf from the Syndics of the University Press with Bragg designated as recipient in holograph). FIRST EDITION, one of an unspecified number of copies privately printed for presentation to delegates to the celebration at Cambridge of the centenary of the birth of Darwin and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Origin . Freeman 1555; Norman 605. -- HAECKEL, Ernst. De telis quibusdam astaci fluviatilis. Dissertatio inauguralis histologica... Berlin: G. Schade, 1857. 8 o. 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary blind-embossed orange boards. FIRST EDITION of Haeckel's doctoral dissertation on certain tissues in the crayfish, his first zoological work. He became a converted evolutionist after reading a German translation of Darwin's Origin in 1862. Norman 962. -- BUTLER, Samuel. Unconscious Memory . London: David Bogue, 1880. 8 o. Original decorated orange cloth (hinges cracked). FIRST EDITION of Butler's anti-Darwinistic work which attempted to demonstrate that species variation was due more to to conscious or unconscious memory, rather than chance and environmental factors. Norman 382. -- SCHAAFHAUSEN, Hermann. "Zur Kenntniss der ltesten Rassenschdel," in: Archiv fr Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin , Jahrgang 1858, pp. 453-478. Berlin, 1858. 8 o. Later gray wrappers. FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Contains the "first description of the Neanderthal skull, the first human fossil skull morphologically distinct from the skulls of modern Homo sapiens , discovered in 1856 in the Neanderthal Cave in the Neander Valley, near Dsseldorf" (Garrison-Morton 204). (See also lot 1087.) Norman 1904. -- WEISMANN, August. Ueber den Einfluss der Isolirung auf die Artbildung . Leipzig: Engelmann, 1872. 8 o. Original gray printed wrappers (spine chipped, few chips at edges). Provenance : Prof. Dr. Baumler (presentation inscription from the author on the upper wrapper [below crossed out inscription to Alfred Russel Wallace in Weismann's hand]). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY (inscribed twice by the author). Norman 2194. (8)