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Lot 45
  • 45

Darwin, Charles

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Darwin, Charles
  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860
  • Paper
8vo, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (with two quotations on the verso of the half title), contemporary brown cloth decorated and ruled in blind, rebacked, worn at extremities, front free endpaper detached along upper half of hinge

Literature

Freeeman 377

Catalogue Note

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.