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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, 8° (191 x 128mm). Numerous illustrations in text. (Occasional light spotting heavier on advertisement leaves at end, small marginal tears to final two leaves.) Original green cloth, blind-stamped boards and gilt spine, dark blue endpapers (hinges restored, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: David Calbot (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In The 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 processes' (Norman). 2,500 copies of the first issue were published on February 24 and sold at £1.4s. The second issue was published the following month. Freeman 937; Norman 599.
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, 8° (191 x 128mm). Numerous illustrations in text. (Occasional light spotting heavier on advertisement leaves at end, small marginal tears to final two leaves.) Original green cloth, blind-stamped boards and gilt spine, dark blue endpapers (hinges restored, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: David Calbot (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In The 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 processes' (Norman). 2,500 copies of the first issue were published on February 24 and sold at £1.4s. The second issue was published the following month. Freeman 937; Norman 599.