Darwin, CharlesBiblio.com
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)Biblio.com
The descent of man and selection in relation to sex 1894
rif. 41946London : John Murray 1894. Second edition revised and augmented. Thirty-first thousand. Octavo gilt-lettered green cloth corners and edges rubbed light foxing to patterned endpapers previous owner's name to half-title pp. xvi; 693; blank 78 text illustrations a very good copy. The second edition reprinted of Darwin's important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: 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 before its appearance in the sixth edition of the 'Origin' in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys Reprinted from Nature November 2 1876 p. 18. This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877. Freeman 976. Â hardcover
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