THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1878

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1878

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[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, 1878.

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections [twentieth thousand - stated]. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (8°) (190 x 120 x 38 mm.). Pp. xxi, 458. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind-panelled covers; page edges trimmed; brown coated endpapers; half-title present; folding chart between p.90-p91. Printed footnotes throughout. Glossary and index to rear. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. W. Bone & Son binder's ticket to corner of rear pastedown. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete; binding secure and square, with light bumping to spine ends, the edges and points largely straight. Covers remarkably clean with moderate rippling to spine cloth. Interior well-preserved being largely fresh and clean. 'Queen's Prize' plate [for examination of science] neatly pasted onto the front endpaper. An excellent copy and scarce thus.

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