The origin of species (1889)

A$750 · 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, 1889. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-seventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges and corners rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly foxed), with a label, dated January 15th, 189, on front pastedown presenting the book to Henry J. Taperell, Chief Reporter of the New Zealand Times on the occasion of his leaving for Sydney, from members of the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Wellington Press, pp. [ii], xxi, [blank], 468, folding lithographed plate (slightly miscreased), light foxing to preliminaries. A very good copy. A fine copy of the sixth edition of one of the most important texts in the history of science. The first edition of 1859, 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. The sixth edition, extensively rewritten by Darwin and published in 1872, removed the word On from the title On the origin of species and includes rebuttal of Roman Catholic b

• Binding: Hardcover

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