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Lot 138
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 -
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$8,190
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[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first printing (with two quotes opposite title-page). 8vo. 432 pp. Illustrated with one folding plate. Original brown pebbled cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; scattered minor soiling to boards; small chipping at foot of spine; all edges trimmed; ownership signature in pencil at head of front blank; top corner of front free endpaper and blank creased; moderate to heavy foxing to prelims and text; pp. 123-142 slightly proud; blindstamp in top corner of front free endpaper; book-plate on front paste-down. Freeman 377
A tight unsophisticated copy.