The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
DARWIN, Charles
Sixth Edition, Fifty-Sixth Thousand.
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: John Murray, 1899
Stock code: 51349
Price: £720.00
8vo., Sixth Edition, Fifty-Sixth Thousand, with folding diagram, front endpapers and half-title very lightly spotted; original green arches-style cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy.
With publisher's advertisement leaf at end. The sixth edition (first issued in 1872) is the last published in Darwin's lifetime and contains his final major corrections and revisions. It is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter inserted to confute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 144.