
Lot 102•
DARWIN (CHARLES) The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1868
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DARWIN (CHARLES)
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations in the text, without the publisher's catalogue in volume 1, contemporary half calf, black and red gilt morocco spine labels, rubbed [Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597], 8vo, John Murray, 1868
Footnotes
With this work Darwin "intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation" and refuted the idea "that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed" (ODNB). It also included the first usage of the phrase "Survival of the Fittest" by Darwin.
Provenance: W.J. Dear, pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper of volume 1, and title of volume 2.