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On the origin of species by means of natural selection : or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / by Charles Darwin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC85 D2594 859o 1869
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Standardized Title:
- On the origin of species
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution.
- Natural selection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Swift, F. (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 596, 32 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition, with additions and corrections (10th thousand).
- Other Title:
- Origin of species
- Place of Publication:
- London : J. Murray, 1869.
- Notes:
- Three quotations on page facing t.p.
- Contains "Additions and Corrections to the fifth edition" (p. xi-xiii).
- Contains "An historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion On the origin of species" (p. xv-xxiii).
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements, dated September 1868, (32 p.) at end.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of F. Swift on t.p.
- Cited in:
- Freeman, 387a.
- OCLC:
- 123296724
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