On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life -
Charles Darwin
1866 - John Murray, London - Fourth Edition, with additions and corrections (eighth thousand)
‘It is now fully recognized that the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species brought about a revolution in man’s attitude toward life and his own place in the universe. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person. The book remains surprisingly modern in its assertions and is also remarkably accessible to the layman, much more so than recent treatises necessarily encumbered with technical language and professional jargon’. - Harvard University Press.
Printed in the same format and cloth as the first edition, one of only 1,500 issued, with further additions and corrections, it also includes the author's expanded historical sketch written to satisfy complaints that he had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution, and a table detailing ‘additions and corrections to the fourth edition’.
A superior and thus scarce example in the original decorated green cloth, folding diagram opposite page 130.
In Origin of Species Darwin ‘not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken.’ – Printing and the Mind of Man. Provenance: Contemporary 19th century signature and stamps of William Robertshaw, and Walter Robertshaw, of Allerton, Yorkshire to front endpapers,
References: Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. Freeman, 385. Alumni Cantabrigienses, 1752-1900 V5.
Octavo (book size 20.6x13.7cm), pp. xxi [1] 593 [1] 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1865). In publisher’s green embossed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, green coated endpapers, neatly re-cased. Freeman’s variant b binding, with ‘Origin’ and ‘Species’ lettered in italic to the spine. Condition: Near fine, neatly re-cased, faint spotting to first and last few pages, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Ref: 112415 Price: HK$ 30,000
Printed in the same format and cloth as the first edition, one of only 1,500 issued, with further additions and corrections, it also includes the author's expanded historical sketch written to satisfy complaints that he had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution, and a table detailing ‘additions and corrections to the fourth edition’.
A superior and thus scarce example in the original decorated green cloth, folding diagram opposite page 130.
In Origin of Species Darwin ‘not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken.’ – Printing and the Mind of Man. Provenance: Contemporary 19th century signature and stamps of William Robertshaw, and Walter Robertshaw, of Allerton, Yorkshire to front endpapers,
References: Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. Freeman, 385. Alumni Cantabrigienses, 1752-1900 V5.
Octavo (book size 20.6x13.7cm), pp. xxi [1] 593 [1] 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1865). In publisher’s green embossed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, green coated endpapers, neatly re-cased. Freeman’s variant b binding, with ‘Origin’ and ‘Species’ lettered in italic to the spine. Condition: Near fine, neatly re-cased, faint spotting to first and last few pages, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Ref: 112415 Price: HK$ 30,000