“Sexual selection in relation to monkeys.” In Nature, Volume VX, November 1876 to April 1877, pp. 18-19

by Charles Darwin

$750 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1877. 4to. xii, 564 pp. the entire volume . FIRST EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Charles Edward Fewster of Hull. Item #14434 First printing of Darwin’s original paper discussing sexual selection in his 1871 work Descent of man, stating that the case of the “brightly-coloured hinder ends

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