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Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. John Murray, London, 1861.
Price: US$2881.94 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 1861. 3rd edition, 7th thousand. FREEMAN 381 binding variant (B). Very occasional light foxing. Uncut in publishers' cloth with binders' ticket. Ownership inscription dated 1864. Better than average cloth gilt with rolling of top and tail of spine and bumping of corners with just visible showing of boards beneath cloth. Hinges lightly scuffed with loss of cloth surface. Inner hinges split.otherwise a good/very good copy. Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$3170.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: THIRD EDITION WITH ADDITIONS & CORRECTIONS [SEVENTH THOUSAND]. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE & FOLDING PLATE PRESENT TO PAGE 123, ORIGINAL ENDPAPERS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 19 + 538 PAGES + 2 PAGE PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE. A WORN COPY IN NEED OF RESTORATION [PLEASE SEE IMAGES TO HELP WITH CONDITION] SEVERAL TEARS TO CLOTH COVER, BOARDS WORN TO EDGES, SEVERAL WRINKLES TO CLOTH COVER, EARLY LABEL TO FRONT BOARD, SMALL INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER, SEVERAL NUMBERS WRITTEN TO REAR ENDPAPER, SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING MINOR MARKS OR CREASE TO TEXT PAGES, OCCASIONAL SEPARATION AT INNER PAGER MARGINS. OVERALL IN GOOD ORIGINAL CONDITION WITH NO RESTORATION. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$3394.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original green cloth boards with imprinted decoration. Wear/rubbing to the extremities with chipped spine ends. Browned and spotting of the contents. Bookplate on front free page. Hinge weak in places. 8vo 538 pp with 2 pages of advertisements.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$4962.71 + shipping
Description: London: John Murray 1861. Publisher's original pebble-grain cloth with gilt-decorated title to spine. Original coloured endpapers. (xx 538 2pp.). With fold. diagram at p.123 and book adverts. at end. Minor creasing to a few text-leaves in Chapter 1 and early owner's name at head of title. Otherwise a most uncommonly fine crisp uncut copy of 'The Most Important Biological Work Ever Published'. Freeman 381. NOTE: 'The Intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus Newton and the great physicist of more recent times . Every modern discussion of man's future the population explosion the struggle for existence the purpose of man and the universe and man's place in nature rests on Darwin.' - Ernst Mayr.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$6404.32 + shipping
Description: pp.xix, 538 with half-title, fold-out lithograph diagram plus 2-page John Murray catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Signature of first owner, dated 1861, to title-page and front pastedown. Additional signatures (dated 1896 and 1942) to ffeps. Very minor spotting, corner of two leaves turned. Overall contents exceptionally clean and nr. fine. Original decorated green cloth thor. vg. to nr. fine. Original brown coated endpapers with binders (Edmunds & Remnants, London) ticket to rear pastedown. Freeman 381, binding variant a. A very pleasing copy.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom