Darwin, Charles
EIGHT VOLUMES FROM THE SIXTH EDITION OF ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES… JOHN MURRAY, 1872-1895, COMPRISING:
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin
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Darwin, Charles
EIGHT VOLUMES FROM THE SIXTH EDITION OF ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES… JOHN MURRAY, 1872-1895, COMPRISING:
i) 1872, sixth edition ("eleventh thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 391], library label on front fixed endpaper, hinges splitting; ii) 1872, sixth edition ("twelfth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 392], marginal notes, lower hinge split, loss to lower joint; iii) 1872, sixth edition ("thirteenth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 393], hinges splitting, slight cockling to cloth; iv) 1872, sixth edition ("thirteenth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 393], upper hinge split, binding worn; v) 1873, sixth edition ("thirteenth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 396], hinges split, abrasions to spine; vi) 1875, sixth edition ("fifteenth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 398], hinges split, remnants of former mounting on front fixed endpaper; vii) 1878, sixth edition ("twentieth thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 403], upper hinge split; viii) 1895, sixth edition ("forty-seventh thousand"), original green cloth, [Freeman 446], head and foot of spine very slightly bumped; all 8vo, half-titles, folding lithographed plate, occasional spotting, a few ownership signatures or stamps, occasional embossed stamps, bindings worn (8)
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The sixth edition is "…usually regarded as the last…" As noted by Freeman, "…it is in this edition that the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time…"
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin
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