ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION
Written by Charles Darwin, Richard Keynes
Published by Folio Society
in 2006
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ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION
Written by Charles Darwin, Richard Keynes.
Stock no. 1830229
2009.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Introduction by Richard Keynes. This edition follows the text of the first edition published in 1859 with some minor emendations and the inclusion of a glossary of scientific terms first published int he fifth edition of 1869. Brown pictorial cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Colour illustrations. Top edge orange. xxxi + 415 pages. Sixth printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Introduction to the First Edition
- I Variation under Domestication
- II Variation under Nature
- III Struggle for Existence
- IV Natural Selection
- V Laws of Variation
- VI Difficulties on Theory
- VII Instinct
- VIII Hybridism
- IX On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
- X On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
- XI Geographical Distribution
- XII Geographical Distribution - continued
- XIII Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
- XIV Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Glossary
- Index