Lot 215
Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, first issue, 1871.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with "transmitted" at start of vol. 1 p.297 and errata to vol. 2 title verso, half-titles, illustrations, and 16pp. advertisements at end of both vol. (spotted), splitting to hinges, very faint foxing to endpapers and titles but clean generally, original cloth, spines gilt, a little damp-stained, some surface wear, extremities rubbed, vol.2 with surface abrasions with mark to upper cover and some to spine affecting text, both vol. recased with text block sitting flush with lower edge, preserved in custom-made drop-back box, [Freeman 937; Norman 599], 8vo, John Murray, 1871.
⁂ The first appearance of the word 'evolution' in any of Darwin's works.
In The Descent of Man Darwin 'compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals, showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes' (Norman). This set bears all the first issue points as called for by Freeman.
Description
Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with "transmitted" at start of vol. 1 p.297 and errata to vol. 2 title verso, half-titles, illustrations, and 16pp. advertisements at end of both vol. (spotted), splitting to hinges, very faint foxing to endpapers and titles but clean generally, original cloth, spines gilt, a little damp-stained, some surface wear, extremities rubbed, vol.2 with surface abrasions with mark to upper cover and some to spine affecting text, both vol. recased with text block sitting flush with lower edge, preserved in custom-made drop-back box, [Freeman 937; Norman 599], 8vo, John Murray, 1871.
⁂ The first appearance of the word 'evolution' in any of Darwin's works.
In The Descent of Man Darwin 'compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals, showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes' (Norman). This set bears all the first issue points as called for by Freeman.
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