Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DARWIN, CHARLES. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 7 Roman-numbered heliotype plates after photographs by Duchenne and Reijlander. Publisher's 4-page catalogue dated November 1872 at end of volume. 8vo, 190x126 mm, original cloth, spine ends nicked, joints rubbed, cover corners frayed; foxing on title and verso of plates, scattered marginal spotting on text leaves, index leaves loose, initial blank lacking. London, 1872

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first edition, first issue. "With this book Darwin founded the study of ethology (animal behavior) and conveyance of information (communication theory) and made a major contribution to psychology"--DSB III, 575. Freeman 1141; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600; Rieber & Gach 122.