THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1891

[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, 1891.

SIXTH EDITION, with additions and corrections (forty-fifth thousand). Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5 x 12.5 x 3.8 cm); pp. xxi, 432, [1, advertisements]. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with blind-panelled boards; spine lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers; half-title; folding chart facing p.84; printed footnotes; glossary and index to rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, with trivial bumping to spine ends, the covers very well-preserved. The interior largely fresh and clean with just a touch of light browning to endpapers. Previous owner details neatly inked to front endpaper. A handsome copy.