The Origin of the Species
by Charles Darwin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Palm Desert, California, United States
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About This Item
This used leather bound book is in very good condition. The pages are crisp and clean. There is 1/4" scratch on the bottom gilt edge. The other edges are free of scratches. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out. The spine is neat.
Synopsis
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of Palm Desert Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20230429E04
- Title
- The Origin of the Species
- Author
- Charles Darwin
- Illustrator
- Paul Landcare
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1991
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Life sciences;
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Edges
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.