Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Folding lithographed table (partly separated at fold). Half-title; publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated June 1859. 8vo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnant, with their ticket, quite worn overall with cover corners bumped and frayed through, once crudely recased with spine reinforced, backing material exposed at chipped bottom of rear joint, book block now separated from binding; occasional marginal foxing and toning, preliminaries loose with adhesive stain along gutter edges, light soiling and minor spotting on title, front free endpaper lacking. London, 1859

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 1250 copies, of darwin's most famous and influential work; Freeman's variant "a" of the binding and variant 3 of the ads. Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; Printing and the Mind of Man 344b.