![]() ![]() Spine slightly cocked, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, very short separation at foot of front joint, endpapers a trifle cracked at inner hinges, very lightly shaken with separation between signatures in a couple of places, a very good copy. 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated June 1859.īookseller's description of a different copy tipped to front pastedown, marks of ownership as noted below. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ornamentally blocked in blind, pale brown coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnant to rear pastedown. First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection, which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory 1,250 copies were printed. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ![]()
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