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Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man. John Murray, 1899.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second Edition. 35th thousand. Green cloth binding with gold lettering. Small sticker from bookseller on inside of front cover., with small pencil mark. Small pencil marks on approx 5 pages (see photo example) but overall a good clean copy.
Seller: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. John Murray, London, 1899.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xvi, 693, 78 woodcuts in text. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, short nick to head of spine. Newspaper cuttings from c.1916-1918 relating to the 'missing link' pasted to front endpaper. Vg. 2nd edition, revised and augmented. 35th thousand. Freeman, 985.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: XVI, 693 pages. Ca. 80 figures (woodcuts) in the text. Minor browning to edges and pastedowns. - Quires partially not opened, apparently in parts unread copy. - Prevoius owner's stamp to title (German biologist & theologician), old owner's ink signature to title (Adolf Dal, Norwegian teacher & geologist). - Externally and internally very good and clean copy of the early reprint edition; first edition was 1871, second (revised) edition 1874. - "Darwin himself and some of his children edited many of the large number of revised editions, some extensively. In late 1873, Darwin tackled a new edition of the Descent of Man. Initially, he offered Wallace the work of assisting him, but, when Emma found out, she had the task given to their son George, so Darwin had to write apologetically to Wallace. Huxley assisted with an update on ape-brain inheritance, which Huxley thought "pounds the enemy into a jelly. though none but anatomists" would know it. The manuscript was completed in April 1874 and published on 13 November that year. This has been the edition most commonly reprinted after Darwin's death and to the present day." (Wikipedia). Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 990 8° (19,5 x 14 cm). Green gilted and blind-stamped original cloth. Thirty-fifth thousand impression of the Second Edition, revised and augmented.
Seller: Antiquariat Kretzer, Kirchhain, Germany
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Description: [Science] Second, revised and augmented, edition, thirty-fifth thousand. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine. A clean, crisp copy, some spotting to first and last leaves, neat ownership to flyleaf, endpapers split along upper hinge but still firmly bound. Cloth very lightly handled. A particularly fresh example. Near fine. The naturalist's second book on evolutionary theory, first published in two volumes in 1871, following the landmark 'Origin of Species' (1859). This more focused study outlines the application of Darwin's theory to human evolution, detailing his theory of sexual selection. Freeman 985.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom