DARWIN, C. COLLECTION OF THREE WORKS

a) On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (three quotations facing the title-page), half-title, folding lithographed plate, original green blind-stamped cloth [Freeman 378], some spotting, damp-staining to first three gatherings, extremities slightly worn, lower hinge splitting; b) The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, illustrations, 10pp. publisher's adverts at end of volume one and 8pp. at end of volume 2, original green cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt on spine, WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF HENSLEIGH WEDGWOOD, DARWIN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, also with bookplates of George William Curtis and Charles Atwood Kofoid (the American zoologist), [Freeman 879], blank and title in volume one detached and front free endpaper coming loose, title page of volume two also almost detached, some repairs to head and foot of spines, gilt a little faded, browning throughout; c) The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle. [Guildford, Surrey]: Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co. Pty. Ltd., 1979, LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, number 171 of 500 copies signed by G.P. Darwin, wood-engraved frontispiece by Roy Williams, 4 plates, original green half calf, gilt edges, original slipcase with printed label; 8vo and 4to (3)

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Hensleigh Wedgwood was an etymologist, philologist and barrister. Many of the books from his library were donated by his daughter to the University of Birmingham.