Menniskans härledning och Könsurvalet. (First Swedish edition of The Descent of Man)

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Stockholm : Albert Bonnier, 1872. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary gilt-lettered half-morocco over pebbled cloth (edges scuffed, particularly at head and foot of spine), marbled edges, pink endpapers, pp. [iv]; 314; (2); [iv]; xv; [blank]; 294; (6), portrait frontispiece of Darwin to volume two, text illustrations, internally fine, a fine set. The first Swedish edition of Darwin s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex , translated by Rudolf Sunderström, originally published in London in 1871. Freeman 1136

• Binding: Hardcover

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