Lot 244
Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in the Zoologist, volume the sixteenth, pp.6293-6308, 1858.
Hammer Price: £2,600
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Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in the Zoologist, volume the sixteenth, pp.6293-6308, light surface markings to half-title and final f., the odd faint spot, modern half calf, gilt spine with green calf label, 8vo, 1858.
⁂ Second appearance in print of the papers in which Darwin and Wallace jointly presented their theories of evolution by natural selection, at which they had arrived independently. These papers appeared earlier that year in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.
Description
Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in the Zoologist, volume the sixteenth, pp.6293-6308, light surface markings to half-title and final f., the odd faint spot, modern half calf, gilt spine with green calf label, 8vo, 1858.
⁂ Second appearance in print of the papers in which Darwin and Wallace jointly presented their theories of evolution by natural selection, at which they had arrived independently. These papers appeared earlier that year in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.
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