On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preserv

DARWIN (Charles).

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (Forty-Third Thousand). 8vo. xxi, [1], 432 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, decorated paper endpapers (some faint spotting to outer leaves, contents otherwise generally clean and unmarked; only minor shelf wear to extremities, otherwise an excellent copy). London, John Murray, 1892.

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A nice example of the sixth edition of “the most influential scientific work of the 19th century” (Horblit) and “certainly the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman). The book “caused a greater upheaval in man’s thinking than any other scientific advance since the rebirth of science in the Renaissance” (Ernst Mayr).

The sixth edition was originally published in 1872 and was the final edition to be published in Darwin’s lifetime. It is particularly significant for containing the first appearance of the word evolution in the text, and has remained the standard and definitive version of the text.

Freeman, 137; Printing and the Mind of Man, 344 (first edition).

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