DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, 197 x 125mm. (7 3/4 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a," uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & REmnants on rear pastedown, lower corners slightly bent, head and foot of spine just rubbed, upper inner joint split after first quire, lower joint cracked, some slight foxing, a few modern pencil annotations in text; cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publishers' catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3). Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Dibner Heralds of Science 199; PMM 344(b).

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DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, 197 x 125mm. (7 3/4 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a," uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & REmnants on rear pastedown, lower corners slightly bent, head and foot of spine just rubbed, upper inner joint split after first quire, lower joint cracked, some slight foxing, a few modern pencil annotations in text; cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publishers' catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3). Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Dibner Heralds of Science 199; PMM 344(b).

An excellent copy of "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" (Grolier/Horblit).