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DARWIN (CHARLES)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Nineteenth Thousand, CUT SIGNATURE OF CHARLES DARWIN ("Charles Darwin") pasted inside upper cover, John Murray, 1885

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DARWIN (CHARLES)

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Nineteenth Thousand, CUT SIGNATURE OF CHARLES DARWIN ("Charles Darwin") pasted inside upper cover, half-title, illustrations in the text, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, slightly rubbed at extremities [Freeman 959], 8vo, John Murray, 1885

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Provenance: H.W.H. Simpson, early ink ownership inscription on opening blank.

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