Lot 271 , Darwin, Charles - The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection... Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Seventh Thousand.), half-title, one folding lithographed plate, 2 pages of advertisements at end, p

° Darwin, Charles - The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection... Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Seventh Thousand.), half-title, one folding lithographed plate, 2 pages of advertisements at end, publisher's blindstamped green cloth gilt, [Freeman 381], 8vo, John Murray, 1861 Footnote: This third edition ("seventh thousand") edition is the first to include Darwin's "Historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion of the Origin of Species," in which he describes his predecessors, those "few naturalists... [who] believe that species undergo modification, and that existing forms of life have descended by true generation from pre-existing forms".
£1,000-1,500

Condition:
Spine bumped, inner hinges split, occasional pencil annotations, ownership inscriptions to front fly leaf and half title, small tear to lower margin p.505, text generally very good.

Sold for £1,300