‎Darwin‎

‎DARWIN, CHARLES‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex‎

‎London: John Murray 1871. First edition. Original cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE one of only 2500 copies in original cloth of Darwin's seminal work on the evolution of man. "This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for Man while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection. In the Origin Darwin had avoided discussing the place occupied by homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection stating only that `light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' Twelve years later he made good his promise with The Descent of Man in which he compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes. In discussing man's ancestry Darwin did not claim that man was directly descended from apes as we know them today but stated simply that the extent ancestors of homo sapiens would have to be classified among the primates; however this statement as misinterpreted by the popular press caused a furor second only to that raised by the Origin" Norman 599. "The word `evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition" Freeman p.129.<br /> <br /> London: John Murray 1871. Octavo original green cloth; custom box. Two volumes. First issue with second volume with errata on verso of title and Postscript leaf tipped in after Contents. With 16-page publishers' catalog at end of each volume dated January 1871 first issue. Nearly invisible expert repair to upper hinge of volume 1; small blindstamp on front free endpapers; foxing to last few leaves of ads in both volumes as often; small hole likely paper flaw and line of soiling to volume 2 title page. A very good copy in original cloth. John Murray unknown‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Vol. I.‎

‎Natural history Darwin & evolution . Pub. D. Appleton & Co. 1871. pp.vi 409 with b/w. figs. plus 2-page of Appleton adverts to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Vol. I only. With exception of a couple of very trivial imperfections the contents are exceptionally clean and in fine condition. Original decorated cloth boards lightly marked and in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. This copy also has a 4-page D. Appleton & Co. advert for their new edition of ‘The Origin of Species’ neatly tipped to the ffep. which provides background to the book’s original publication and its subsequent acceptance or not including a statement by Alfred Russel Wallace taken from his own work. Further statements follow from Prof. T.H. Huxley Sir Charles Lyell and Prof. Geikie amongst others and very interestingly a review of the acceptance of Darwin’s theories of natural selection in the UK USA and Germany. Controversially received like ‘Origin of Species’ before it the word ‘evolution’ occurs here for the first time in any of Darwin’s works. Natural history Darwin & evolution hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles & Dawkins, Richard‎

‎THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX‎

‎Published by Folio Society 2008. 1st thus edition. Hardback. Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Introduction by Richard Dawkins. Attractive green and gilt pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Top edge green. xlvii and 727 pages including index. Couple of minor corner creases to contents else a lovely copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed. Published by Folio Society hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent Of Man‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1024319032.G ISBN : 1024319032 9781024319033

‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Se‎

‎The Folio Society. Used - Good. In Slipcase The Folio Society unknown‎

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‎Darwin, Charles,‎

‎The Descent Of Man and Selection In Relation To Sex‎

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Riferimento per il libraio : 45465575 ISBN : 1017676224 9781017676228

‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man‎

‎London: John Murray 1870. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. The Descent of Man 2 volumes 1st edition 2nd issue London: John Murray 1871 half-titles 16 pp. publisher's advertisements dated January 1871 at rear of each volume wood-engraved illustrations to text spotting to preliminaries and advertisements of both volumesend papers spotted ink ownership signature dated 1950 to upper margin of both half-titlesspine ends rubbed dark blue-black endpapers original green cloth gilt 8vo. Freeman 938. 2500 copies of the first issue were published in February 1871 and 2000 of the second issue published in March. The word 'evolution' occurs for the first time in any of Darwin's works appearing on page 2 of volume one of the first edition. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles; Montague, Ashley; Kredel, Fritz‎

‎The Descent Of Man and Selectin in Relation to Sex‎

‎The Easton Press. Used - Very Good. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather. Black leather boards with gilt design. Preface by Ashley Montagu and drawings by Fritz Kredel. 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. The Easton Press hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin Evolution and Genetics‎

‎Cambridge University Press. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : ANAIS-1108005101 ISBN : 1108005101 9781108005104

‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and selection in relation to sex Introduced by Richard Dawkins Folio Society Edition‎

‎<p>London: The Folio Society 2008. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good slipcase/slipcase. 8vo. colour plates First Folio Society edition of Darwin's Descent of Man with an introduction by Richard Dawkins; colour plate illustrations throughout; nice illustrated green cloth boards green topstain black slipcase; Very Good tight clean copy; minor knock to edge of slipcase o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: VERY HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION.</p> The Folio Society hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 24497

‎DARWIN, Charles‎

‎THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX‎

‎Adelaide: Limited Editions Club 1971. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to the spine tips. Near Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto 8" x 10-3/4" bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set printed and bound by the Griffin Press in Australia. Illustrated with 14 full-page black-and-maroon line drawings and a profusion of smaller black-and-white drawings by Fritz Kredel. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 022353

‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex‎

‎John Murray 1906. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in a prize binding from Britain's celebrated Rugby School. Bound in full brown polished calf by Lawrence Binder of Rugby spine with raised bands red morocco label and gilt floral tooling covers bordered with twin gilt fillets and rosettes at corners upper cover with gilt arms of Rugby School at center marbled edges and endpapers expertly rebacked in matching calf with original spine laid down some prior rubbing to spine and boards; mended tear to blank at front; Rugby School bookplate. Second Edition later printing. John Murray hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 655856

‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Volume I. Second issue‎

‎London: John Murray. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with marbled endpapers. Lacking rear advertisements. Cover rubbed with wear to spine and scuffing to leather. Area of wear with loss to marbled paper to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly foxed. March 1871. First Edition second issue. Green gilt embellished hardback half-leather cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". viii 423pp. B/w vignettes. First edition second issue. Issue points: 'When variations occur. and are transmitted' - first sentence on p.297 rather than 'Transmitted as in first issue'; Use of the term 'evolution' on p.2 - 'Descent' was the first of Darwin's works to utilise this term; both half title and title page are present. This rebound copy lacks the 16pp. advertisements originally present in each volume. . John Murray hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man New Edition Revised and Augmented; Complete in One Volume‎

‎Thomas Y. Crowell. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Revised and Augmented Edition in One Volume. Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles and decor to front and spine top edge gilt. Circa 1900. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. 705pp. Mild bump to upper spine end light wear to boards yet clean binding solid and strong owner name stamped to front pastedown interior text clean. Very Good copy. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover‎

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‎DARWIN, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Second edition revised and augmented. Thirty-third thousand.‎

‎London John Murray 1896. . Second edition thirty-third thousand; 8vo; engravings throughout the text ownership initials on the title and front free endpaper a few small notes and some underlining in pencil endpapers tanned contents faintly toned; original green cloth blocked in blind titles to spine gilt minor bumps to the corners and edge of the lower board lower joint just starting a few small white spots on the cloth a little wear at the extremities very good condition; 693pp.<br /> Second edition thirty-third thousand of Darwin's application of evolution by natural selection to humans. Originally published in 1871 The Descent of Man contains the first use of 'evolution' in any of his published works preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of On the Origin of Species by a year and the second edition includes a new preface describing the 'fiery ordeal through which the book has passed'. The final definitive version of the text was the twelfth thousand printed in 1875 with the following printings up to the turn of the century being stereos of it.<br /><br />'In the Origin Darwin had avoided discussing the place occupied by Homo sapiens in the scheme of natural selection stating only that "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history". Twelve years later he made good on his promise with The Descent of Man in which he compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes. In discussing man's ancestry Darwin did not claim that man was directly descended from apes as we know them today but stated simply that the extant ancestors of Homo sapiens would have to be classified among the primates; however this statement as misinterpreted by the popular press caused a furor second only to that raised by the Origin. Darwin also added an essay on sexual selection i.e. the preferential chances of mating that some individuals of one sex have over their rivals because of special structures colors and types of behaviors used in courtship leading to the accentuation and transmission of those characteristics' Hook and Norman The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 599.<br /> Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin 979. London, John Murray, 1896. hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles,‎

‎The Descent Of Man‎

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Riferimento per il libraio : 49384934 ISBN : 0691194041 9780691194042

‎Darwin, Charles/ Yale, Elizabeth E (Editor)/ Costa, James T (Editor)‎

‎The Descent of Man – An Annotated Edition of Darwin's Classic Work‎

‎Princeton Univ Pr 2025. Hardcover. New. 848 pages. 8.00x10.00x8.10 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The descent of man and selection in relation to sex‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man: An Annotated Edition of Darwins Classic Work‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles,‎

‎The Descent Of Man Part 1 and 2‎

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Riferimento per il libraio : 46577968 ISBN : 1021171050 9781021171054

‎DARWIN, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex‎

‎London: John Murray 1874. Second edition. <p>First edition first issue of the book in which Darwin finally gave his public account of two ideas he had withheld from the Origin: the descent of Homo sapiens and - his more original contribution - the mechanism of sexual selection. On page 2 of Volume I the word evolution appears the first appearance of the word in any Darwin work a year before the sixth edition of the Origin. The descent of man made him famous. Sexual selection made him lonely: it required his readers to credit birds fishes and insects with something like aesthetic judgment - that females choosing generation after generation had driven ornament that natural selection alone could not explain. Wallace would not accept it and the community followed him. Sexual selection remained a neglected corner of Darwinism for a century until Trivers 1972 Zahavi 1975 and Hamilton and Zuk 1982 vindicated female choice and placed it at the centre of evolutionary biology. The delay tells its story: Darwin had seen further than his readers who had simply refused to follow.</p>. What Darwin Left Out of the Origin. <p>First edition first issue of the book in which Darwin finally gave his public account of two ideas he had withheld from the Origin of Species: the descent of Homo sapiens from pre-existing forms and - his more original and more contested contribution - the mechanism of sexual selection. The Origin had deliberately excluded man from its argument "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" and had mentioned sexual selection only briefly as a special case within natural selection. Twelve years later with the evolutionary argument secured in the scientific literature and the public polemics largely past Darwin set out the two positions he had kept in reserve. The first made him famous; the second neglected for a century is now recognised as one of the most powerful explanatory frameworks in evolutionary biology.</p> <br /> <p>The twelve-year delay was not accidental. Darwin had been collecting notes on human descent since the Beagle years of the 1830s but had withheld them for strategic reasons. He had written to Wallace in December 1857 that he would avoid the subject of man as surrounded by too many prejudices even while admitting that it was the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist. By 1871 the climate had changed. Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature 1863 had done much of the defensive work; Lyell's Antiquity of Man 1863 had established deep human prehistory; and Haeckel's Generelle Morphologie 1866 had pushed the evolutionary argument onto the Continent and drawn the first explicit phylogenies of the human line. The Descent therefore arrived not as an opening salvo but as the master's own statement delivered at a moment when the main resistance had already been absorbed. The storm that had greeted the Origin did not repeat itself in 1871; Darwin wrote to a friend that he was surprised to find everyone talking about the book without being shocked and took this as a measure of the increasing liberality of the age.</p> <br /> <p>The first volume opens with a page that would prove diagnostic. On page 2 in the introduction Darwin refers to the principle of gradual evolution - the first appearance of the word evolution in any of his published works a year before its appearance in the sixth edition of the Origin. The word had hitherto belonged to embryology and to Herbert Spencer; Darwin had avoided it in the Origin in favour of descent with modification and natural selection partly because evolution still carried its older sense of the unfolding of a preformed germ and partly because Spencer's usage had given it metaphysical baggage Darwin preferred not to inherit. That he now allowed the word onto his own page marks a small but real shift in nomenclature: from 1871 forward the subject would be called evolution and the Descent is where Darwin formally joined the convention he had helped to make inevitable.</p> <br /> <p>The first volume and the opening chapters of the second are devoted to the argument for the descent of man from a pre-existing form. The strategy is cumulative: no single piece of evidence is decisive but each addition narrows the space of alternative explanations. Darwin begins with the homologies of bodily structure between man and the other mammals - the bones of the hand the arrangement of the viscera the musculature - arguing that these resemblances are inexplicable except as the signature of common descent. He proceeds to embryonic development where he reproduces the famous side-by-side comparison of a human embryo with that of a dog the Ecker-Bischoff figure Vol. I p. 15 arguing that in their early stages the two are practically indistinguishable and that embryology therefore preserves in miniature the shared ancestry of the vertebrate body plan. He turns to rudimentary organs - the vermiform appendix the musculus auricularis the coccyx the tubercle on the outer edge of the ear - as fossil evidence carried in the living body structures that make sense only on the assumption that they once served a function in a remoter ancestor. And he finally addresses the mental faculties arguing from comparative psychology - the affection of dogs the jealousy of birds the rudimentary reason observable in the higher apes - that there is no unbridgeable gap between human and animal cognition but rather a difference of degree. The argument leans on his cousin Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius 1869 which had established to Darwin's satisfaction that mental and moral qualities were inherited along the same channels as physical ones and could therefore be brought within the selective argument. The conclusion to the first part is stated with characteristic caution: that man is descended from some less highly organised form and that the grounds upon which the conclusion rests will Darwin writes never be shaken.</p> <br /> <p>A long chapter on the races of man mounts an argument against the polygenist position - then widely held particularly in the American anthropological literature after Morton and Nott - that the human races constitute separate species with separate origins. Darwin argues from the fertility of crosses from shared mental and moral characteristics and from the continuous rather than discrete distribution of racial traits for a single origin of Homo sapiens. His ethnographic scaffolding carries the prejudices of its period; his conclusion however is monogenist and anti-polygenist and in the politics of nineteenth-century race science that was the liberal position decisively opposed to the scientific racism then institutionalised in the American schools.</p> <br /> <p>The moral sense receives its own treatment. Against those who held that conscience and altruism must be divinely implanted because they could not be derived from self-interest Darwin argues that the social instincts - present in rudimentary form throughout the higher animals - provide a natural foundation for ethics. An animal that lives in a group is selected for behaviours that sustain the group; over generations those behaviours become internalised as moral feelings. It is the earliest sustained naturalistic account of ethics in the evolutionary literature and it is precisely the argument that Wallace a recent convert to spiritualism refused to accept.</p> <br /> <p>With the descent of man established Darwin turns in the remainder of the second volume to his second and originally his primary subject: sexual selection. This is the book's most sustained theoretical innovation. Darwin had been troubled since the 1850s by a class of biological traits that natural selection could not easily explain - elaborate male ornament ornate plumage antlers display behaviours bright colours - which often appeared to reduce the bearer's chances of survival rather than enhance them. The peacock's tail had become his standing example of the problem. Writing to Asa Gray in April 1860 only months after the publication of the Origin Darwin confessed that "the sight of a feather in a peacock's tail . makes me sick." The remark is only half a joke. It identifies the precise class of phenomena that resisted the argument of the Origin and it locates the theoretical problem that would occupy him for the next eleven years. The solution developed in the Descent was that a second mechanism distinct from natural selection was at work: selection not for survival but for reproductive success acting through mate choice and intrasexual competition.</p> <br /> <p>Sexual selection in Darwin's formulation has two components. The first - male-male combat - accounts for weapons and body size: antlers horns spurs large canines the fighting armature of rival males. The second - female choice - accounts for ornament: song colour display behaviour elaborate plumage. The implication was radical. Female preference exercised generation after generation was sufficient to drive the evolution of male traits that would otherwise be selected against. Darwin was asking his readers to believe that birds fishes and insects were in effect making aesthetic judgments and that those judgments had consequences at the species level. The comparative tour that occupies the bulk of Volume II - insects Chapters X-XI fishes amphibians and reptiles Chapter XII containing the arresting figure of Plecostomus barbatus a South American siluroid catfish in which the male's mouth and interoperculum are fringed with a beard of stiff scale-like hairs of which the female shews hardly a trace birds Chapters XIII-XVI by far the longest treatment taking in courtship display vocal performance plumage and the geographical distribution of ornament and mammals Chapters XVII-XX - is in effect a six-hundred-page argument that this aesthetic mechanism is real widespread and responsible for most of the secondary sexual characters in the animal kingdom.</p> <br /> <p>Wallace would not accept it. The disagreement had been building for years. Darwin and Wallace had corresponded intensively through 1867 and 1868 about the coloration of female birds the selective meaning of sexual dimorphism and - the point that eventually separated them - whether animals were capable of the kind of preference that Darwin's theory required. Wallace's 1868 Westminster Review essay on ornament already hedged: he would allow that bright colour could indicate vigour but not that it could be chosen for beauty alone. In his 15 March 1871 Academy review of the Descent he broke with Darwin publicly and in the papers that followed through the 1870s he argued that apparent ornament was really cryptic colouration or species recognition misread and that female choice - which required crediting animals with something like aesthetic sense - was implausible. Most of the scientific community followed Wallace. Sexual selection remained a neglected and faintly embarrassing corner of Darwinism for most of a century mentioned in textbooks as a historical footnote but rarely taken up as a research programme. It was resurrected only in the 1970s when Robert Trivers's 1972 parental-investment paper gave female choice a rigorous economic foundation Amotz Zahavi's 1975 handicap principle explained why costly ornaments could function as honest signals of genetic quality and W. D. Hamilton and Marlene Zuk's 1982 Science paper connected ornament to parasite resistance. Sexual selection is now one of the central research programmes in evolutionary biology and Darwin's six hundred pages are read as a founding document rather than a historical curiosity. The delay tells its own story: Darwin had seen further than his readers and his readers had simply refused to follow for a hundred years.</p> <br /> <p>Darwin's eldest daughter Henrietta Emma Darwin had read the manuscript and suggested corrections of style; in a letter of 28 March 1871 Darwin called her his very dear coadjutor and fellow-labourer and the book's argumentative clarity owes something to her editorial hand. The wood-engraved illustrations were drawn from life by the zoological artist T. W. Wood whose earlier work for Alfred Russel Wallace's Malay Archipelago 1869 had made him the best-placed draughtsman in England for the natural-history figures the Descent required; his economical diagnostic style suited the comparative method of the second volume where the illustrations carry much of the argumentative weight. The corrected proofs went to Murray on 15 January 1871 and the first issue of 2500 copies appeared on 24 February priced at £1/4/- the two-volume set. Demand was immediate: within three weeks a reprint had been ordered and by the end of March 1871 some 4500 copies were in print earning Darwin close to £1500. The religious press was hostile - the Edinburgh Review the Dublin Review and the Quarterly Review all published long attacks - but the scientific periodicals took the book more or less on its own terms. The most damaging review was the Quarterly's published anonymously in July 1871: Darwin guessed correctly that the author was St George Jackson Mivart Huxley's disillusioned former pupil whose own On the Genesis of Species January 1871 had already mounted a Catholic-metaphysical critique of natural selection. Mivart argued that the Descent would unsettle half-educated classes and licence moral relativism; Darwin felt the sting told Huxley that he expected to be viewed as the most despicable of men and was relieved when Huxley counter-attacked in the Contemporary Review that autumn. The episode permanently soured the Darwin-Mivart relationship and figures prominently in the 1874 second edition where Darwin silently corrected several of Mivart's specific objections without naming him. Translations appeared quickly: German Carus 1871 the two-volume Stuttgart edition that Darwin came to regard as authoritative and used when correcting his own text for later editions Dutch Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen 1871-2 French Moulinié 1872 Italian Russian and Swedish all within three years of the first printing. By the time Darwin died in 1882 the Descent had reached a wider international readership than any of his other works with the sole exception of the Origin itself. Two further English issues of the two-volume edition appeared in April and December 1871 the seventh and eighth thousands each incorporating small textual corrections; a second edition followed in 1874 in a single volume rearranged into three parts with sexual selection in relation to man split off as Part III a supplementary note on the brains of man and apes supplied by Huxley pp. 199-206 a five-line errata slip and extensive textual revisions throughout Freeman 944. Darwin had initially intended Wallace to help him prepare the new edition but his wife Emma intervened; the editorial assistance came from their son George Darwin instead and Darwin wrote an apologetic letter to Wallace explaining the reassignment.</p> <br /> <p>The present copy is the first issue of February 1871 distinguished from the second issue March 1871 2000 copies by four diagnostic features in Volume II all of which are present and correct. First the verso of the title leaf carries the printed errata list - seventeen corrections for Volume I and eight for Volume II - replaced in the second issue by a list of nine other works by Darwin. Second a separately tipped-in Postscript leaf paginated pp. ix-x and inserted after the Contents on which Darwin acknowledges "a serious and unfortunate error" in his argument on sexual selection affecting Volume I pp. 297-9 and Volume II pp. 161 and 237. Darwin had realised too late to correct the printed text that he had conflated two distinct phenomena: the coincidence between the onset of sexual maturity and the appearance of secondary sexual characters which he had attributed to sexual selection and which he now recognised was better explained by natural selection operating at a correspondingly late life-stage. The Postscript does not rewrite the passages; it flags them. Third the verso of the Volume II half-title carries the printer's note William Clowes and Sons Stamford Street and Charing Cross blank in the second issue. Fourth the first word on p. 297 of Volume I - the opening of the passage Darwin apologises for - is transmitted replaced by When in the second issue after the pages had been entirely reset. Both volumes retain the sixteen-page inserts of Murray's advertisements dated January 1871. The first-issue leaves are therefore witnesses to Darwin's thinking in the act of correcting itself and their collective presence is the signature of a copy printed in the earliest state.</p> <br /> <p>Institutional copies of the first issue are securely held at Cambridge University Library Darwin's own copy in the Darwin Archive the British Library the Bodleian the American Museum of Natural History the Linda Hall Library the Huntington and the Norman Library lot 599 in the 1998 Christie's dispersal; auction appearances of complete first-issue sets in publisher's green cloth are not common at the better grades with the standard reference points the Garden 1989 Sotheby's catalogue the Norman 1998 Christie's sale and the Nordmann 2006 Christie's Paris dispersal. Census coverage in WorldCat returns several hundred holdings for the 1871 imprint as a whole but does not distinguish issue by record; Freeman's four-feature collation remains the operative test for assigning a given copy to the first issue rather than to the second. The present copy carries all four features and an indistinct pencil monogram apparently EH at the head of the Volume I half-title the only ownership mark in either volume; the marginal annotations and underlinings are the unsigned hand of a careful contemporary reader who worked through both volumes and who paused with particular attention at the bird and mammal chapters of Volume II.</p> <br /> <p>References: Freeman 937 - Garrison-Morton 170 - Norman 599 - Printing and the Mind of Man 169 - R. B. Freeman The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist 2nd ed. Folkestone 1977 pp. 128-31 - van Wyhe ed. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online F937.</p> <br /> <br /> <br/> <br/> <p>Two volumes 8vo 191 × 125 mm. Vol. I: pp. viii 423 1 16 pp. publisher's advertisements dated January 1871; Vol. II: pp. viii ii: errata on verso of title leaf and tipped-in Postscript leaf 475 1 16 pp. publisher's advertisements dated January 1871. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Publisher's original green diaper-pattern vertical-rib cloth spines lettered and decorated in gilt with foliate ornaments at head and foot "LONDON / JOHN MURRAY" at the foot of each spine blind-stamped panelled boards yellow endpapers. Faint pencil ownership monogram at the head of the Vol. I half-title indistinct. Occasional pencil underlinings and small marginal annotations throughout - the marks of a careful contemporary reader who worked through both volumes. Rubbing and light wear to extremities and spine caps; minor chipping to a few leaf edges; foxing to text block edges and occasional light internal foxing; text block of Vol. II split at p. 161 - the page Darwin apologises for in the Postscript - but holding and entirely unrestored. A good honest copy in original cloth read and annotated rather than merely shelved.</p> . John Murray unknown‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex‎

‎D. Appleton and Company 1889. Very Good. Darwin Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. NY: D. Appleton and Company 1889. 688pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with bumping and fraying. Some penciling on some pages and rear pastedown without obstructing text. The illustrations are very well done and detailed showing even the minutest details of insect wings and other creatures. D. Appleton and Company unknown‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex: Vol. I Cram Edition‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

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‎DARWIN, CHARLES‎

‎THE DESCENT OF MAN‎

‎Limited Editions Club Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. FINE. Preface by Ashley Montagu. Drawings by Fritz Kredel. 4to half leather with ornate gilt spine title and design over patterned paper covered boards; top edge speckled. No. 1016 of 1500 copies printed at the Griffin Press; designed and printed under the direction of Douglas A. Dunstan. Signed by Fritz Kredel the illustrator. Limited Editions Club Hardcover‎

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‎Darwin, Charles‎

‎The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex‎

‎J.A. Hill and Company 1904. Very Good Bound in Three Quarter Leather with marbeled boards 1904 Second edition revised and augmentated illustrated. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. J.A. Hill and Company Hardcover‎

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