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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 of 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 of Life. London: John Murray 1859.
8vo-sized 12mo, 199 x 125mm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown, inner joints cracked and the text block a little loose, one half-inch tear at top of upper joint, slight wear to ends of spine, some spotting, mostly at front and back, title slightly creased, modern green quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3).
Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b.
"The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century"--Horblit.
8vo-sized 12mo, 199 x 125mm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown, inner joints cracked and the text block a little loose, one half-inch tear at top of upper joint, slight wear to ends of spine, some spotting, mostly at front and back, title slightly creased, modern green quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3).
Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b.
"The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century"--Horblit.