The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin

$6,000 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first printing. Quarter leather. This is the first edition, first impression of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex – his first book to apply the term “evolution” - in a striking contemporary fine binding.The binding features quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, with blind tooled transitions

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