On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

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On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin ( England 1859 )

Dimensions

12.40cm wide 20.00cm high (4.88 inches wide  7.87 inches high)

Literature

R.B. Freeman, The works of Charles
Darwin…, London, 1977. p. 373
Harrison Horblit, One hundred
books famous in Science…
at the Grolier Club, 23b
D.H. Hook & J.M. Norman,
The Haskell F. Norman Library…,
San Francisco, 1991, 593
Printing and the Mind of Man,
Munich, 1983, 344b

Description / Expertise

First edition
This is described by Freeman
(op.cit.) as ‘The most important
biological work ever written’ and by
Horblit (Grolier op.cit.) as ‘The most
influential scientific work of the
nineteenth century’.