1882 THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION In RELATION To SEX BY CHARLES DARWIN ORIGIN
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:17360338 | Non-Fiction Subject: Natural History |
| Author: CHARLES DARWIN | Year Printed: 1882 |
| Language: English | Binding: Fine Binding |
| Special Attributes: Illustrated | Region: Europe |
I have here for sale a book entitled THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX by CHARLES DARWIN Second Edition, Revised and Augmented Fifteenth Thousand, with illustrations published by John Murray, London, in 1882. Darwin's work established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature and in 1871 he published "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" where he examines human evolution... and sexual selection. There are 77 b/w figures.Tan leather boards with a gilt emblem of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School on the front board. Five raised bands, a dark brown title block, gilt lettering and gilt decoration on the spine. Scuffing to boards and some wear to the spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Prize label on front endpaper. Front hinge partially cracked but all pages are firm and clean and the book is in very good internal condition. 693 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
