On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Faces in the Struggle for Life
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. A new edition, revised and augmented by the author. Hardcover. Octavo; (7 5/8 x 5 inches). xi, [5]-440, [2pp publisher's advertisements at rear], [1] folded plate. Includes pages numbered 116*-121* and index. Contemporary previous owner bookplate for Barton O. Aylesworth (who as President of the College of Letters and Science, Drake University, gained the distinction of being the youngest college president in America. Original publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt spine lettering ('The Origin of Species/Darwin'), yellow coated endpapers. Soiling and edgewear to covers (with boards showing at extremities), text block still tight, a couple of dogeared pages and spots of minor foxing, ex-library with pocket at rear (no other indications and never loaned), else a Very Good copy of this important "Printing and the Mind of Man" title. (Freeman 383). Item #22591
Price: $800.00