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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
8vo (195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. With folding lithographed plate. Original publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles on spine; neat contemporary bookseller's blindstamp to flyleaf (J. M. Westhaffer of Lancaster, PA). Half-title glued rather tightly, poorly effaced collector's stamp at head of title, binding strong and very well preserved, contents crisp but with scattered foxing throughout.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with two quotations on the verso of the half-title. "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" (PMM). Noting the Origin of Species' dramatic impact in Britain in November of 1859, the American scientist Asa Gray was eager to bring Darwin's book to the American public as soon as possible and began to arrange its publication in Boston in 1860. However, the New York firm of Appleton had beat him to it by mid-January, printing the first American appearance of "the most important biological work ever written" (Freeman). Freeman 377.
8vo (195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. With folding lithographed plate. Original publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles on spine; neat contemporary bookseller's blindstamp to flyleaf (J. M. Westhaffer of Lancaster, PA). Half-title glued rather tightly, poorly effaced collector's stamp at head of title, binding strong and very well preserved, contents crisp but with scattered foxing throughout.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with two quotations on the verso of the half-title. "Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" (PMM). Noting the Origin of Species' dramatic impact in Britain in November of 1859, the American scientist Asa Gray was eager to bring Darwin's book to the American public as soon as possible and began to arrange its publication in Boston in 1860. However, the New York firm of Appleton had beat him to it by mid-January, printing the first American appearance of "the most important biological work ever written" (Freeman). Freeman 377.