£3,024
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1861. Third edition, seventh thousand, 8vo in 12s, original wavy-grain green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative blind panels to sides, brown coated endpapers, xix [1] 528, pp., half-title, folding lithographic table, 2 pp. advertisements to rear, spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to joints, small sections of wear to head and foot of rear joint, a few trivial marks to covers, tips very slightly bumped, inscription possibly effaced from front free endpaper [Freeman 381]
Note:
Third edition, seventh thousand, Freeman's binding variant a (no priority assigned), with the full point after Murray on the spine. The third edition comprised in total 2,000 copies and was 'extensively altered' from the second edition, including the addition of a historical sketch 'written to satisfy complaints that Darwin had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution' (Freeman).