DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life London: John Murray, 1859, 8°, FIRST EDITION folding plate (perforation stamp on half title, title, H6 and H7, marginal repairs to half title, title, one leaf of contents and final advertisement leaf, accession number on first page of contents, many leaves brittle with marginal tears), pp.32 publisher's advertisement dated June 1859 (Freeman variant 3), modern green half morocco, protective box. [Dibner 199; Freeman 373; Horblit 236; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Sparrow 49] Provenance: JCL

细节

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life London: John Murray, 1859, 8°, FIRST EDITION folding plate (perforation stamp on half title, title, H6 and H7, marginal repairs to half title, title, one leaf of contents and final advertisement leaf, accession number on first page of contents, many leaves brittle with marginal tears), pp.32 publisher's advertisement dated June 1859 (Freeman variant 3), modern green half morocco, protective box. [Dibner 199; Freeman 373; Horblit 236; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Sparrow 49] Provenance: JCL

拍品专文

"By observing the special biology and geology of isolated islands during the cruise of the 'Beagle,' Darwin's reflective mind saw, in the struggle for existence, that favorable variations would tend to help survival, with the resulting formation of new species. Fossil remains and the extinction of species, such as the dodo and solitaire birds, further supported such a position. This, the most important single work in science, brought man to his true place in nature" (Dibner).