DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection.

DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1884. Sixth edition, 26th thousandth, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) Half-title, 1 folding chart. (Spotting to blanks, toning, lacking advertisements.) Contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth, two tan morocco lettering pieces to the spine (chipped at top of spine, fading to cloth). – And a further three volumes by Charles Darwin (including ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’, second edition, 1883, 8vo, and ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’, tenth thousandth, 1873, 8vo, and ‘Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ Round the World’, sixteenth thousand, 1884, 8vo) (4).

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