Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection . . . Fifth Thousand. Folding lithographed table. ix, [1], 502 pages. Publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated January 1860. 8vo, 198x127 mm, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket, expertly recased preserving original endpapers, spine ends and cover corners bumped; light to moderate foxing on opening leaves, small hole in blank portion of half-title, 19th-century owner's signature on title, dense marginalia on pages 72 and 132, piece torn from lower margin of O8 not impairing legibility, outer portion torn off last leaf of publisher's catalogue. London: John Murray, 1860

Additional Details

Second edition, second issue, in Freeman's binding variant "a." Freeman 376; Norman 594.