On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #010070
With additions and corrections from sixth and last English edition. Two volumes in one. Orig. russet cloth, gilt title to spine, black stamped borders to front board, stamped in blind to rear board. xxvi, 339 pp., [1] folding chart. Cloth is damp stained and soiled. Rubbing to extremities. Spine darkened and tilted. Wear to corners of front board. Staining to edges of text block. Light damp staining to top and tail edges of front endpapers. Short tear to foot of ffep. Some pencil marginalia. One inch tear to foot of folding chart. A later printing of the corrected and expanded American edition of Darwin's revolutionary work, based off the sixth and final English edition (1872, the last edition published in Darwin's lifetime). Includes Chapter VIII: Instinct.
Price: $400.00