The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
by Darwin, Charles
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1929. xxxi, [1], 703, [1], portrait frontis, 1 double-page plate. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, title and decorative design in black to front board and spine, minor rubbing, spine slightly darkened. Vg. From the library of K.G.V. Smith, with his bibliographical note in pencil to endpaper. Ken Smith (1927-2017), as well as being a collector of Darwin material, was a leading British dipterist at the Natural History Museum, London, and editor of the <i>Entomologists Monthly Magazine<i>.. The last Murray printing of the 6th edition (Popular Impression), with final list of 20th century issues. Freeman, 543..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S41560
- Title
- The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
- Author
- Darwin, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Evolution; Natural Selection
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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