Darwinism

Second Hand
Hardback
Published by: Macmillan & Co
2nd edition. Book Condition: Very Good-.

Heliotype frontispiece portrait of author with tissueguard, 1 hand-coloured folding map, text illustrations and diagrams. Original green cloth with some minor bumping and discolouration. Front hinge cracked through the end-paper but holding. Internally very crisp and clean throughout, with just some minor age toning. Deaccessioned from the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire. 2 stickers: one to paste down and a 2nd to FFEP showing purchase date of 1895. Overall Very Good-. Photos available on request. Second edition of Wallace’s treatise on the theory of natural selection. Wallace claims for this book “the position of being the advocate of pure Darwinism.”