For Private Distribution The Following Pages Contains Extracts From Letters Addressed To

by Charles Darwin

$275,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Cambridge: the University Press for the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1835. / First edition, very rare, of Darwin’s first separately printed work — the thirty-one-page pamphlet in which John Stevens Henslow, his mentor, printed extracts from ten letters from South America for the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 1 December 1835. Darwin was then in the South Pacific and would not learn for six months that the pamphlet existed. Sedgwick read

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