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Price: US$692.96 + shipping
Description: Half-title, xvi, 688 pp. Errata slip bound in page one with five corrections listed. No inscriptions or marks. Original green cloth with gilt titles. Blind rules to the borders. A very good NEAR FINE copy with a tight and clean text block and a fine binding. The brown end-papers have split so the text block is now loose.The 2nd edition, revised and Augmented with illustratons. Tenth thousand with a preface by Darwin from Down in Bechenham, Kent dated September, 1874. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex. John Murray, London, 1874.
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xvi, 688, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 8vo in 12s (190x120mm), orig. green cloth, rubbed, minor wear to corners, a few ink spots to rear board; short tear to front endpaper, orig. owner's name erased to verso; later owner's name to pastedown; small ink smudge to outer margin of title; occasional light foxing; one gathering working loose, with stitching tender; small marginal stain to lower outer corner of 20 pages. A good copy. Without the Errata slip mentioned by Freeman. 2nd edition, tenth thousand. This edition was issued as a single volume (the first edition (1871) is in two volumes), and the text is divided into three parts (rather than two in the first edition), with sexual selection in relation to man being separated off as the third part. This edition has ben extensively revised and contains a note by T.H. Huxley 'On the Resemblences and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes', pp 199-206. Freeman 944.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. John Murray, London, 1874.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, revised and augmented, of Darwin's most important work after The Origin of Species. The first edition in 2 vols. appeared in 1871 and featured the first mention of the word 'evolution' with regard to man's origins (having studiously avoided this term in Origin). This second edition was the first in one volume, includes nearly 100 textual revisions and additions, including a 7-page essay by Thomas Huxley. The first printing of the second edition (of which this is a copy) is designated as Tenth Thousand on the title page [Freeman 944]. Freeman notes the presence of a 5-line errata slip, not in this copy and no indication that it was ever removed There was a reprint as 11th thousand in 1875. Original fine sand grain dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped frames to covers. Neat professional repair to minor loss at head of spine using identical cloth. Brown coated end-papers. A clean, sound, attractive copy of one of the most significant works in the history of science, now most uncommon in the original cloth.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom