The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin

$7,750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first impression of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in the publisher’s original green cloth bindings. Herein, on page 2 of Volume I, is his first use of the term “evolution.”First impression of the first edition is confirmed by issue points; in Volume I,

• Binding: Hardcover

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