List 164 - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

375 D’OYLEY, Elizabeth. ENGLISH DIARIES. Preface by George Gordon. Small 8vo.Original orange cloth, spine rather faded.
Pp. 253, (iii). Edward Arnold, 1934. £15.00
Excerpts from the diaries and journals of Charles Wriothesley, Henry Machyn, Anthony A.Wood, Samuel Pepys, Henry
Teonge, John Evelyn, Elizabeth Byrom, James Boswell, Fanny Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and
Captain Robert Scot.t
376 DALL, William Healey. SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD. A biography. Including selections from his correspondence with
Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and others. Large 8vo. Original stiff wrappers, a little soiled and edges slightly rubbed. Pp. xvi, 462,
with 19 plates. Cancelled library label of the Royal Anthropological Institute inside upper wrapper, small stamp on title. [First
edition] J.B.Lippincott Co., 1915. £75.00
Baird (1823-1887) was instrumental in creating the U.S. Fish Commission, served for a time as Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, and established the fi rst marine laboratory in the United States at Woods Hole, Mass. He was a
prolifi c author and editor and two of his works, the Mammals and the Birds of North America, are still classic titles.
377 DANE, E.Surrey. PETER STUBS AND THE LANCASHIRE HAND TOOL INDUSTRY. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp.
xi, 291, with 18 plates and 4 text illustrations. [First edition] Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son, 1973. £45.00
378 DARBISHIRE, Helen. THE POET WORDSWORTH. The Clark Lectures, Trinity College Cambridge, 1949. Small 8vo.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (rather chipped and spotted). Pp. viii, 183. Flyleaves lightly browned, the occasional small
annotation. [First edition] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950. £25.00
379 DARLEY, Gillian. OCTAVIA HILL. A life. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 399, with 16 pages of illustrations. Presentation
card tipped to the pastedown, otherwise a fi ne copy of the only modern biography of the co-founder of the National Trust. [First
edition] Constable, 1990. £40.00
380 DARROCH, Sandra Jobson. OTTOLINE. The life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 288, with 16
pages of illustrations. [First edition] New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc., 1975. £20.00
381 DARROW, Floyd, L. MASTERS OF SCIENCE AND INVENTION. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. v, 352,
with 8 pages of portraits. [First edition] New York: Harcourt Brace, 1923. £20.00
382 DARTON, F.J.Harvey. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MRS.SHERWOOD (1775-1851). From the diaries of Captain and Mrs.
Sherwood. Thick 8vo. Original plum cloth gilt, spine a little faded. Pp. xiv, 519, with 11 plates (1 coloured, 1 a folding facsimile,
1 a double-page facsimile). Flyleaves lightly spotted, joints slightly strained. [First edition] Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.,
1910. £85.00
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The life of Martha Mary Sherwood (nee Butt,1775-1851), author of “The Fairchild Family” and other childrens’ books.
Scarce.
DARWIN, Bernard. LIFE IS SWEET, BROTHER. Original coarse-weave cloth, spine a little browned and spotted. Pp. 285,
with frontispiece. Third edition, Collins, 1940. £35.00
384 DARWIN, Francis (editor). CHARLES DARWIN. His life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his
published letters. Original green cloth gilt. Pp. vii, 348, with portrait. Front joint a little cracked and repaired with tape. New
edition, John Murray, 1902.
[Freeman: 1472].
£30.00
385 —— THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by his son. 3
volumes. Original cloth gilt, not quite matching, a little rubbed or dulled in places. Pp. x, 396; (ii), 394; iv, 418, all edges gilt,
with 3 portraits, 3 plates and a facsimile. Joints of volume 1 strengthened with cloth. Third edition, John Murray, 1887. £150.00
[Freeman: 1452].
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