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Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition, seventh thousand. xiv, 473pp illustrated with wood engravings. Some loss to spine head and base lightly rubbed. Internal hinges cracked otherwise very good throughout.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
Darwin, Charles. The Variation of animals and Plants Under Domestication. John Murray, London, 1890.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes, small octavo (5" x 7.5"), dark green cloth with gilt titles. Covers decorated in blind. xiv, 473pp, [1] with ad leaf; x, 495pp. with index. Illustrated with wood engravings. A tight, clean set with a minor rubbed spot on each spine. There is a faded area at the fore-edge of the cover of volume one. A very attractive set. The first appearance of the term pangenesis, in which Darwin postulated the existence of a hereditary material inside cells called gemmules which could be modified by the organism's environment and passed on to the offspring. Second edition , revised. Tenth thousand.
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$432.49 + shipping
Description: 2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Seventh Thousand, with 43 illustrations in the text, some very occasional underlining (mainly in pencil), a little light spotting to the first several leaves of each volume; original arches-style binding of green cloth, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, backstrips lightly chafed (without loss) at heads and tails, lower joints mildly rubbed and a little tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (April, 1889) bound in at end of second volume as called for. First published in 1868, Darwin's longest work was extensively revised for the second edition of 1875 which became the final text. It is especially notable for containing (in Chapter XXVII) the first statement of the author's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis. No publisher in England other than Murray has ever printed this important work. Freeman (Darwin), 241; Freeman (BNHB), 910.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$624.97 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in green cloth. Neat owner name.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.