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Item Details
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| Author: |
Darwin, Charles and Alfred R. Wallace |
| Title: |
On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Longman, Brown, et al. |
| Date: |
1859 |
| Item # : |
126104 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
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21 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 13800 |
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| Description: |
| Pp. 45-62, as issued in Vol. III, Zoology, of Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (complete Volumes I-III offered, [4], 182; [4], 176; iv, 204 pp., bound in 1 volume). With a number of engraved plates, though none illustrating the Darwin/Wallace paper. 8½x5¼, period half calf & marble boards, morocco spine labels. First Edition. |
| Seminal paper in the development of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection, written in partnership with Alfred W. Wallace, being a portion of his then unpublished masterwork, On the Origin of Species. Darwin's half of the paper (pp. 46-53) is comprised primarily of an "Extract from an unpublished Work on Species...consisting of a portion of a Chapter entitled `On the Variation of Organic Beings in a state of Nature; on the Natural Means of Selection; on the Comparison of Domestic Races and true Species." The paper is dated June 30th, 1858, and was read before the Society July 1st, 1858, communicated by Charles Lyall and J.D. Hooker. This appearance can be considered the second issue, the same printing as the first, as described by Freeman: "The Journal came out in parts and was available to the Fellows of the Society of with Zoology and Botany together in each part, Zoology alone, or Botany alone. Later it appeared in volume form made up from reserve stock of the parts with new title-pages, dated in the year of completion of the volume, and indexes..." It is this latter form which is here being offered, the Zoology portions only, as issued. Though overshadowed by the importance of the Darwin paper, being the first publication of a portion of one of the most important and influential works of the nineteenth century, the first three volumes of the Zoology portions of the Journal of the Linnean Society are themselves exceedingly significant, containing essays, papers and studies crucial to the understanding of the natural world. Freeman 347. |
| Condition: |
| Formerly in the Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, with perforated stamp to the first title-page, a few rubberstamps, white spine lettering. Wear to spine ends and corners, light foxing to the plates, else very good. |
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