The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
by Darwin, Charles
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1888. xxi, [1], 458, folding diagram. . HB. 8vo (186x125mm), cont. half calf, rubbed/scuffed, rebacked retaining orig. backstrip, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title piece, marbled boards (rubbed), edges and endpapers. Foxing to prelims, occasional spotting elsewhere. Vg.. Sixth edition. Thirty-third thousand. The sixth edition (first published 1872, and reissued many times) is regarded as the last and contains Darwin's final major corrections and revisions, including a new chapter, VII, inserted to confute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart. The title is changed to 'The Origin of Species', and it is in the sixth edition that the word 'evolution' appears for the first time.Freeman, 423..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A38166
- Title
- The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
- Author
- Darwin, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Evolution; General Natural History
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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- Rebacked
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- New
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- Gilt
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