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Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, folding diagram slightly creased and repaired, lower margin of F8 and upper margin of X10 repaired, the latter just obscuring headline and pagination on recto and verso, lacking half-title and publisher's advertisements at end, slight foxing to a couple of ff., ink library stamp to a few ff., occasional light soiling and a few marginal chips but most of text generally clean and sound, library binding of later half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed and rebacked preserving old spine, [Freeman 373], 8vo, John Murray, 1859.

⁂ An ex-library and thus necessarily inferior copy of, nevertheless, 'certainly the most important biologoical book ever written' (Freeman).

Provenance: R.M. Artillery Library (ink stamps and shelf-mark to spine).

Description

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, folding diagram slightly creased and repaired, lower margin of F8 and upper margin of X10 repaired, the latter just obscuring headline and pagination on recto and verso, lacking half-title and publisher's advertisements at end, slight foxing to a couple of ff., ink library stamp to a few ff., occasional light soiling and a few marginal chips but most of text generally clean and sound, library binding of later half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed and rebacked preserving old spine, [Freeman 373], 8vo, John Murray, 1859.

⁂ An ex-library and thus necessarily inferior copy of, nevertheless, 'certainly the most important biologoical book ever written' (Freeman).

Provenance: R.M. Artillery Library (ink stamps and shelf-mark to spine).

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