Darwin (Charles).- Jenyns (Leonard) Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, first and only edition, half-title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, errata slip inserted at p.1, double-page table at p.100, leaf on which portrait mounted lightly browned, a few spots, light yellow endpapers, original dark green cloth, spine gilt, [Freeman 830], 8vo, John Van Voorst, 1862.

⁂ An excellent copy of this rare work, rendered more so by the colour of our cloth (Freeman records two bindings: purple cloth, with inserted advertisements and blue cloth). We can trace only two other copies at auction, both in purple cloth, one of which the Norman copy. Henslow (1796-1861) was Professor of Botany at Cambridge when Darwin was at Christ's College and they were friends. Darwin's first separately printed work (Letters on Geology (Freeman 1)), which contains his first account of his discoveries on the Beagle was addressed to Henslow. Both Henslow and Jenyns had in fact been invited to join the Beagle before Darwin. The work includes Darwin's recollections of Henslow on pp.51-55 and Henslow's reaction to On the Origin of Species on pp.211-212. A list of Henslow's publications is given at the end.