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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1899, 1899.

Price: US$214.43 + 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

DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. John Murray, London, 1899.

Price: US$284.56 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 56 Thousand; xxi + 432 p. Buchrücken gebrochen und Einband lose; muss nachgebunden werden. Spine broken; book has to be rebound. BINDING COPY !

Seller: HJP VERSANDBUCHHANDLUNG, WEDEL, SH, Germany

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.. John Murray, London, 1899.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 6th edition, 56th thousand. Rebind. Some light scuffing to leather at corners, front gutter cracked at contents, rear gutter cracked at index, otherwise clean and tidy. Size: 12mo

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

Darwin, Charles.. The Origin of Species. By means of Natural Selection.. 6th. Ed. 56th. Thou. Pub. John Murray. 1899, 1899.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Description: pp.xxi, [i], 432 with fold-out plate plus 2-page publisher’s list of the Life and Works of Charles Darwin. 8vo. Hardback. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and half-title o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Three small sections toward end uncut. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind tooled decoration to boards in nr. fine condition with just light wear to extremities and a little evidence of repair to top of spine. Freeman 457. A very pleasing copy of the most complete edition of Darwin’s masterpiece.

Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Darwin Charles. THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS.. London John Murray 1899, 1899.

Price: US$715.00 + shipping

Description: Second edition, revised, sixth impression. With numerous illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and blocked in blind on the covers. xvi, 300, Index + 32 ads. pp. A very fine copy, bright and clean and beautifully preserved. EARLY PRINTING IN VERY FINE CONDITION. One of Darwin's most important but often overlooked works. The LIFE AND LETTERS of Darwin (III, p. 274) quotes Asa Gray as saying that "if the Orchid-book (with a few trifling omissions) had appeared before the 'Origin' the author would have been canonised rather than anathematised by the natural theologians," and noted that a review in the 'Literary Churchman' found only one fault "that Mr. Darwin's expression of admiration at the contrivances in orchids is too indirect a way of saying, 'O Lord, how manifold are Thy works.'" The book was concerned with working out in detail the relationships between sexual structures of orchids and the insects which fertilize them, their evolution being attributed to natural selection, and therefore was the first of the volumes of "supporting evidence" for his ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Although it was praised highly by botanists, it did not sell well (only about 6000 copies by the turn of the century).

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

DARWIN, CHARLES. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.. London. John Murray. 1899, 1899.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Description: Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Original publisher's cloth- UNUSUALLY BRIGHT ORIGINAL CLOTH. xxi, 432 pages, one folding plate. Complete. The Sixth edition, with additions and corrections, (fifty-sixth thousand). Some spotting to the title and fore edge (as usual) but a nineteenth century copy rarely found in such bright condition.

Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom

DARWIN Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. [Sixth Edition], Fifty-Sixth Thousand. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH COPY. John Murray,, 1899.

Price: US$922.68 + shipping

Description: 8vo., Sixth Edition, Fifty-Sixth Thousand, with folding diagram, neat contemporary inscription on half-title, endpapers and preliminary leaves (to Contents) lightly spotted; original green cloth, boards with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, firm copy.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Darwin Charles. THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION. London John Murray 1899, 1899.

Price: US$1045.00 + shipping

Description: 2 volumes. Second edition, eighth impression, a very early reissue of an important edition revised. With illustrations throughout. 8vo, original polished green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spines, paneled in blind on the covers. xiv, 473, [1]; x, 495, 32 catalogue pp. A very handsome set, beautifully preserved and unusually fresh in the original bright and unfaded cloth, still with the gilt bright and strong in colour, a tight and clean copy. A HANDSOME SET OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. The second edition is very important in that Darwin made a number of corrections, but more importantly he reworked Chapter XXVII on Pangenesis. This work "represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters. It contains, in Chapter XXVII, his provisional hypothesis of pangenesis; one which he thought was new, but has a long back history" (Freeman 877). The first work to truly discuss the actual origin and development of species as an accepted scientific method. The second part of his 'big book' was not published until 1875, under the title NATURAL SELECTION. It was in this work that Darwin attempted his finalization of the understanding or pangenesis and an explanation of acquired characteristics and hereditary resemblance. These subjects were near to impossible to explain in Darwin’s time as scientific methodology and technology had simply not developed to the point at which finite and provable studies on genes and chromosomes could be explored.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.