THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1888

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1888

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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, 1884.

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 [thirty-seventh 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; patterned 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. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, with light bumping and rubbing to spine ends and points, the covers very clean. Interior well-preserved being largely fresh and clean with some spotting to endpapers. Previous owner name neatly to corner of front pastedown. An excellent copy.