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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
de Charles Darwin
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Acton, Massachusetts, United States
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1st issue with 5-line errata in volume I and 7-line errata in volume II
2 volumes, Octavo, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1868. This remarkable work by Darwin contains the first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest" originally coined by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (1864).
Wood-engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at end of volume II, bound without the 32 pp. advertisements at end of volume I.
Contemporary tan half calf, spines with green and brown labels and splendid gilt decoration, a superb clean copy.
Sinopsis
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is a book written by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868. A large proportion of the book contains detailed information on the domestication of animals and plants but it also contains in Chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he called pangenesis.
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- H-143
- Título
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- Autor
- Charles Darwin
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- Usado
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- 1
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- Editorial
- John Murray
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1868
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
