The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1872)

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

New York; D. Appleton and Company; 1872. Two volumes, octavo, brown cloth with black decoration, lettered in gilt to spine (chipped at head and foot of spines), previous owner s name to endpapers, Vol. I, pp. [iv]; (blank); vi, 409; (blank); [2 advertisements); [2 blank]; 25 text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. [ii]; (blank), viii, 436, [12 advertisements), [2 -blank]; 51 text illustrations, extensive index; a very good set. The second edition, reprinted, of Darwin s important work on natural selection. The third US edition, based on the second U.K. issue of the previous year (Freeman 938) with no list of Errata to Volume I and with the errors corrected. Freeman 943.

• Binding: Hardcover

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