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On the Origin of Species: by means of Natural Selection Sixth Edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. (Fifteenth Thousand.)
by DARWIN, Charles
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- Hardcover
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Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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About This Item
FIRST USE OF THE TERM 'EVOLUTION' - IN THIS DARWIN'S LAST LIFETIME EDITION
8vo. xxii, 458pp., folding diagram, original green cloth, sides with a blind-blocked border, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new end papers close match to the originals and with the original binder's ticket 'W. Bone & Son' on rear end paper, old stamps of Belfast Association of Spiritualists on half-title, title page and head of contents leaf, half title a little dust marked and rubbed at edges, cloth a little marked, else very good.
FREEMAN Darwin Bibliography, 398 The sixth issue of the sixth edition. Darwin's last lifetime edition and the first to use the term "evolution".
8vo. xxii, 458pp., folding diagram, original green cloth, sides with a blind-blocked border, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new end papers close match to the originals and with the original binder's ticket 'W. Bone & Son' on rear end paper, old stamps of Belfast Association of Spiritualists on half-title, title page and head of contents leaf, half title a little dust marked and rubbed at edges, cloth a little marked, else very good.
FREEMAN Darwin Bibliography, 398 The sixth issue of the sixth edition. Darwin's last lifetime edition and the first to use the term "evolution".
Synopsis
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species.
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Details
- Bookseller
- P & B Rowan
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57541
- Title
- On the Origin of Species
- Author
- DARWIN, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Original cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Edition, revised
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- EVOLUTION SCIENCE NATURE
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