Lot 5
Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Third edition, with additions and corrections (seventh thousand). London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo in 12s, xix 532 [2] pp., original green cloth (binding variant 'A'), half-title, folding lithographic plate, advertisement leaf to rear, wear to spine ends, very small (4 mm) split to rear joint, tips bumped and worn, occasional pencil markings, pp. 81-4 clumsily opened along fore edges, one leaf of index (2A1, pp. 529/30, loose and chipped) [Freeman 381]. Together with another copy (sixth edition, twenty-second thousand, original cloth, relined, title-page defective)
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Footnote
Provenance: William Brinton MD FRS (1823-1867), English physician and authority on the digestive system, with his ownership inscription dated 1863 to the half-title, and his posthumous book-label on the front pastedown; Sarah Clutton (ownership inscription dated 1947 to half-title).