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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 QH365 .O2 1884 Peachey copy
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC85 D2594 859o 1884
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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:
- Sturt, Gerald (autograph) (Culture Class copy)
- Peachey, Lee D. (donor) (Peachey Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 458 pages : folded plate ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 / Twenty-sixth thousand.
- Other Title:
- Origin of species
- Preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
- Place of Publication:
- London : J. Murray, 1884.
- Notes:
- Three quotations on page facing t.p.
- 19 titles on verso of t.p.
- Contains "Additions and corrections to the sixth edition" (p. [xi]-xii).
- Contains "An historical sketch of the progress of opinion On the origin of species, previously to the publication of the first edition of this work" (p. [xiii]-xxi).
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection has marginal marks and numbers.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Gerald Sturt, March 1885.
- Peachey Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Lee Peachey.
- OCLC:
- 11769642
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