THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1882

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1882

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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, 1882.

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections [twenty-fourth thousand, stated]. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5cm x 12.5cm x 3.8cm); pp. xxi, 458. English text; bound publisher's original green cloth; gilt titles to spine; blind-panelled boards; brown coated endpapers; half-title; glossary and index to rear. Provenance: Reginald J. Saville's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact, slight bumping to spine ends, the covers very well-preserved. The interior largely fresh and clean but lacking the folding plate between pages 90-91. A sound copy.