May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Folding lithographed table facing page 117. ix, [1], 502 pages, including half-title (with 2 quotations on verso), but with pages 153-160 internally out of order, and without the 32-page publisher's catalogue at end. 8vo, 190x115 mm, 20th-century 1/2 green morocco gilt; contents clean, but with some chipping along edges of preliminaries and some other leaves, table separated at folds. Harvard University Library embossed stamp on title recto, and rubberstamp dated 1902 on verso (Estate of Prof. E. W. Gurney, released). London: John Murray, 1859

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 1250 copies. Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; Printing and the Mind of Man 344b.