DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.  London: John Murray, 1859.
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray, 1859.

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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray, 1859.

8o in 12s. 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 [Freeman variant 3] at end. Half-title with quotations from "W. Whewell" and Bacon only on verso. Folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin bound to face page 117 (front free endpaper and half-title loose). Original green cloth, covers decorated in blind, gilt spine [Freeman variant b], brown coated endpapers, (rebacked with the original back strip laid down, paste-downs renewed); green cloth folding case.

Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Heirs of Hippocrates 1724; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton (1991) 220; Grolier Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Sparrow Milestones 49; Waller 10786.

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