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Lot 48
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Darwin, Charles.

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Description

  • Darwin, Charles.
On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. John Murray, 1869

Provenance

W. Wooler, from Darlington (pencil inscription dated 1860 on front endpaper)

This may be the landowner, collier owner and agriculturalist William Alexander Wooler (1813–91) of Sadberge Hall, Darlington. Wooler was the founder of the Darlington Conservative Association and also of the conservative newspaper The North-Eastern Independent . Four letters by Wooler to Darwin dating from between February 1861 and December 1868 are recorded in the Darwin Correspondence Online Database. These all discuss the behaviour of various animals and plants.

Literature

Dibner 199; Freeman 373; PMM 344b; Grolier Horblit 23b; Norman 593

Catalogue Note

First edition of "the most important single work in science" (Dibner) and "the most important biological work ever written" (Freeman).