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Lot 43
  • 43

Darwin, Charles

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Darwin, Charles
  • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. John Murray, 1871
  • Paper
8vo, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with first word of p.297 "transmitted" in vol. 1 and printer's note on verso of half title, list of errata on verso of title page and tipped in leaf referring to "a serious and unfortunate error" (pp.[ix-x]) in vol. 2), 76 woodcut illustrations, 16pp. of adverts dated "January 1871" at end of each volume, original green cloth ruled in blind, head and foot of spines bumped, slightly worn at corners of boards, boards of vol. 1 slightly rubbed and bubbled

Literature

Freeman 937

Catalogue Note

The introduction to The Descent of Man includes Darwin's first use of the term 'evolution' in his published writing, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species by a year.

This lot is being sold by the Charles Darwin Trust to fund the gift of Quentin Keynes’ remaining collection of important Darwin and Wallace books and manuscripts to the Linnean Society, for use in their educational programmes.