DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex, London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, 8, half titles, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end of both volumes (a few light spots), original green publisher's cloth, gilt lettered spines (front hinges in vol. I almost detached, head and tail of spines chipped, extremities rubbed), a few leaves in vol. II partly unopened.

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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex, London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, 8, half titles, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end of both volumes (a few light spots), original green publisher's cloth, gilt lettered spines (front hinges in vol. I almost detached, head and tail of spines chipped, extremities rubbed), a few leaves in vol. II partly unopened.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In Descent of Man, Darwin compared "man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals, showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary process" (Norman). Freeman 937; GM 170; Norman 599. (2)