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Lot 139

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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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, third issue (with three quotes opposite title-page, and "Revised Edition" on title-page). 8vo. 432 pp. Illustrated with one folding plate. Original purple pebbled cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards and spine browned and rubbed; green endpapers; all edges trimmed; early ownership signature in pencil on front free endpaper; early gift inscription at head of front blank; moderate to heavy foxing to prelims and rear index; scattered light to moderate foxing to text; pp. 219-238 slightly proud. Freeman 379

A tight unsophisticated copy.

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