Origin Species Means Natural Selection by Darwin Charles Robert (40 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Not Ex-Library. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable.Copy is water damaged but text still clean and readible throughout. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Variation under domestication. 2. Variation under nature. 3. Struggle for existence. 4. Natural selection. 5. Laws of variation. 6. Difficulties on theory. 7. Instinct. 8. Hybridism. 9. On the imperfection of the geological record. 10. On the geological succession of organic beings. 11. Geographical distribution. 12. Geographical distribution. 13. Mutual affinities of organic beings: morphology embryology: rudimentary organs. 14. Recapitulation and conclusion. Glossary. Born on February12, 1809 to a wealthy country physician. He took interest as a child collecting beetles. Participated in a five year voyage of the survey ship H.M.S. Beagle to South America soon after his graduation. He collected specimens of living animals and plants as well as fossils. He was intrigued that some marine fossils were found in cliffs far above sea level and that some of the fossils of land animals he found represented animals that no longer lived in the areas where he found them. It was only in 1844 that he confided his theories to another sympathetic colleague, Joseph Dalton Hooker. For eight years starting in 1846. Darwin focused his research on barnacles, believing this would help establish himself as an expert in species variation. He finally went public with his ideas on evolution at the meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858. Darwin worked on his theory for 20 years. After learning that another naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas, the two made a joint announcement of their discoveries in 1858. His book outlining his theories origin of species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st thus edition; dj w//unclipped price, in mylar; soslid grey c w/gilt spine tittles; Rockwell Kent end papers;6 89 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Number over Bird on Spine (illustrator). OLDER SERIES. VERY GOOD Condition Brown Clothbnd,CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT ; ".part of a ten year reading plan." Gold Spine Title On GREEN Cloth With Bird Spine Ilust Under Spine Volume Number; 659pg pages; Gold Spine Title On GREEN Cloth With Bird Spine Ilust Under Spine Volume Number. Great Books Of The Western World" Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Number over Bird on Spine (illustrator). OLDER SERIES. VERY GOOD Condition Brown Clothbnd,CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT ; ".part of a ten year reading plan." ; 659pg pages; Gold Spine Title On GREEN Cloth With Bird Spine Ilust Under Spine Volume Number. Great Books Of The Western World" Series.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. elibron classics edition. 485 pages. 8.10x5.30x1.20 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. pp. xxxi, 703. 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 8". Publisher's original stamped green cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. Lovely sepia-tone portrait of Darwin captioned with his signature in facsimile, and accompanied with its immaculate-preserved original tissue-guard; one fold-out plate. Light bumping and touch of edgewear to the cloth extremities, slightly shaken. Very light age-toning strictly confined to the endpapers, neat period ink name to the ffep, else, text-block remains quite bright, clean, and unmarked with sound binding. Overall, very good. A lovely early edition of Darwin's magnum opus and one of the most consequential works of natural history.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 486 pages. 8.10x5.30x1.30 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition, With Additions and Corrections, forty-fifth thousand, and the final 'life-time edition', the first to use the term 'evolution' in its text. Original green cloth with blind rules to front and rear boards, gilt lettering to spine, patterned endpapers. Octavo. pp. xxii, 432, one folding chart. Binding a little rubbed, slight spotting to prelims, partially uncut, a very good copy. Provenance: presentation inscription on prelim from R. J. Wilson to C. E. Byles, the antiquarian and writer, with a quotation from Tennyson's 'In Memoriam': "Move upward, working out the beast, and let the ape and tiger die". Also another owner's signature to ffep (Mulford Martin) and his blind stamp to title page. A book in Very Good condition. Freeman 442.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp. xxi, 458. folding diagram. original cloth (spine ends frayed, inner hinges partly cracked). Sixth Edition (Twelfth Thousand). Generally regarded as the last edition, the sixth was extensively revised and included a new chapter, VII, inserted to refute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St. George Mivart, and a glossary compiled by W.S.Dallas. The title was changed to The Origin of Species, and the word 'evolution' appears in this text for the first time. "Prepared under the advice of Lyell and Hooker, this was Darwin's greatest work and one of the most important books ever publishedThe evidence for the existence of evolution and that it resulted from the survival of the fittest by natural selection is marshaled and set out as never before. Garrison considered this "the most wonderful piece of synthesis in the history of science". Darwin's influence on biology was fundamental, its full implications being by no means yet exhausted." (Garrison & Morton) Freeman 392. cfGarrison & Morton 220. cfGrolier/Horblit 23b. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 344b.

London: William Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1876. 8vo. Original green cloth, boards with blind-ruled borders, spine titled in gilt, brown endpapers; pp. xxi, [1 (blank)], 458, folding lithographic plate by W. West; slight crease to spine, overall a fresh copy in the bright original binding.Sixth edition, eighteenth thousand. The first issue of the final definitive text, the bibliographer noting that the last corrections in this issue are "slight but undoubtedly those of Darwin himself". It is also one of the scarcer issues of the work, there being only 1,250 copies printed - "this number is as small as any, being equalled only by that of the first edition". Freeman goes on to point out that the significance of this issue was long overlooked and that it was, and still is, "remarkably hard to come by". "The sixth edition, which is usually regarded as the last, appeared in February, 1872. Murray's accounts show that 3,000 copies were printed [i.e. the 11,000th-13,000th thousands] [.] It is again extensively revised and contains a new chapter, VII. This was inserted to confute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart. The edition was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type, the volume shorter again and giving the general impression of a cheap edition, which at 7s.6d. it was" (Freeman, p. 79); it was an edition intended for a mass market -- indeed, Darwin had heard that a group of Lancashire workmen had clubbed together to buy a copy -- and Darwin "realised that there were more markets to penetrate, more audiences to reach" (Browne II, p. 354). Apart from the change of the title to The Origin of Species, and the addition of a glossary, compiled by W.S. Dallas, the sixth edition is notable as that in which "the word `evolution' occurs for the first time. It had been used in the first edition of The descent of man in the previous year, but not before in this work. `Evolved' had been the last word of the text in all previous editions, but `evolution' had been omitted, perhaps to avoid confusion with the use of the word by Herbert Spencer or with its more particular embryological meaning. The word had however been used in its transformist sense by Lyell as early as 1832 (Principles of Geology [.]). In this edition it occurs twice on page 201 and three times on page 424" (Freeman, pp. 79-80). Freeman 401.

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxvi, 365; vii, 338. with half-titles. folding diagram. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. (spines & corners worn). "Prepared under the advice of Lyell and Hooker, this was Darwin's greatest work and one of the most important books ever publishedThe evidence for the existence of evolution and that it resulted from the survival of the fittest by natural selection is marshaled and set out as never before. Garrison considered this "the most wonderful piece of synthesis in the history of science". Darwin's influence on biology was fundamental, its full implications being by no means yet exhausted." (Garrison & Morton) Freeman 458a. cfGarrison & Morton 220. cfGrolier/Horblit 23b. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 344b.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1864 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 470 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 470 Charles Darwin , Charles Robert Darwin.