The origin of species (1885)

A$1,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life . London : John Murray, 1885. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (ternty-eighth thousand). Octavo, original publisher s gilt-lettered green cloth (boards a little flecked, slightly bruised at head and foot of spine) original brown endpapers, pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate, a couple of minor pencil underlinings. A very good, crisp copy, uncommonly so. A very good copy of the sixth edition of one of the most important texts in the history of science. The first edition, a great rarity, is described in Freeman as the most important biological work ever written. ; Dibner, the most important single work in science. ; Printing the Mind of Man, revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken. Freeman 416

• Binding: Hardcover

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