THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

by Charles Darwin

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First edition

London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition of this epochal work — extensively and argumentatively annotated by a 19th-century reader who is both reasonably scientifically informed and morally shocked by its contents. Very good plus. Item #55674 The first edition of ORIGIN famously sold out in a single day in November 1859, leading publisher Murray to issue a second edition as soon as Darwin had made revisions, in

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