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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex.New York : 1871
First US edition, later issue without errata. First published in the UK earlier that year, it was in this work that the word "evolution" appears for the first time, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year. Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle the thorny question of human evolution,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 117907
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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.London : 1872
Sixth edition, second issue, printed simultaneously with the first issue, which is marked as the "eleventh thousand" on the title page. Freeman notes that the second issue is "notably less common". The sixth edition is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually made revisions to his text; this edition featuring a new chapter, chapter VII, and a glossary... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 120358
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DARWIN, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.London : 1881
First edition, first issue, of Darwin's final book. Published the year before his death, the work was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies within a year, and indeed initially sold faster than the Origin of Species had done.
The culmination of ten years of intensive research and close observation on the interaction of earthworms with their... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 142075
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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.London : 1875
Sixth edition, fifth issue, marked as the "fifteenth thousand" on the title page. The sixth edition is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually made revisions to his text; this edition featuring a new chapter, chapter VII, and a glossary by W. S. Dallas. "The edition was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type... giving the general... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 120369
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DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed, to Henry Colburn.[late October 1837]
An unrecorded early letter from Charles Darwin to his publisher Henry Colburn, regarding the proofing of his upcoming first book, the Voyage of the Beagle, the seminal account of probably the most important voyage in the history of science.
Darwin completed the first draft of the book in June 1837, and in late September sent the manuscript to... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 142676
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DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.London : 1872
First edition, Freeman's first issue, with "that", rather than the second issue misspelling "htat" on the first line of p. 208; a very nice copy indeed in the bright original cloth. Completing Darwin's great cycle of evolutionary writings, Expression of the Emotions "appeared in November, and was awaited with such interest that over 5,000 copies were... Learn More£3,200.00Stock Code: 145213
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DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.London : 1868
First edition, second issue (with the one-line erratum in volume I); 1,250 copies were published in February 1868 and the two issues have "considerable textual differences" (Freeman). "The term 'survival of the fittest' (borrowed at Wallace's insistence from Herbert Spencer's 1866 Principles of Biology) first appeared in the Variation and in the fifth... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 113772
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.London : 1871
First edition, first issue of both volumes (vol. I with "transmitted" on p. 297; vol. II with errata on the verso of the title leaf). Here the word "evolution" appears for the first time in any of Darwin's works, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year.
Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 142082
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.London : 1871
First edition, first issue of both volumes; a very nice, clean copy in the original cloth. Here the word "evolution" appears for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species the following year.
Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 144126
