The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals de Charles Darwin - 1873

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First US Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with paper label on spine. Exterior is scuffed and soiled with a some small bubbles in the cloth. Paper label is quite darkened as is spine and spine edges show chipping. Edges and corners show bumps/wear. The internal front hinge is a thin crack to the paper on the frontispiece, rear hinge appears good. Presumed first US edition with date of 1873 appearing on the title page. Several sections of the pages are still uncut though page 294/295 and 326/327 show tearing at the bottom where the original owner attempted to separate the pages by hand. This is a uncommon US printing as there are no publishers advertising pages, nothing printed on what would normally be the copyright page and line 1 of page 208 contains the correct spelling of "that". The seven plates are numbered with Roman numeral and are all attached and in good condition. All illustrations, including the plates, have been verified as being present and good. No signatures or bookplates present, no library markings, no handwriting found.