Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. John Murray, Albemarle Street. London, 1888

Description Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. John Murray, Albemarle Street. London, 1888 Bound in original publisher's green cloth, dry-stamped on front and back panels, spine decorated and titled in gilt, brown inner endpapers. One folding lithographic plate at p. 90. Pages xxi, [blank page], 458, + 32 pages of publisher's catalog "Mr. Murray's General List of Works" dated 1888. Small bookplate of Joannes N. Mills. The sixth edition is the last edition published during Darwin's lifetime and contains the first use of the word "evolution" in support of Darwin's argument for natural selection. In addition, the word "On" has been removed from the title "On the Origin of Species", and the text includes a rebuttal of the theological arguments of Roman Catholic biologist St. George Mivart in his 1871 text On the Genesis of Species. Size: 8° (189x120mm) Provenance: Private collection Condition: Corners slightly soft and a little bumped, slight wear to cloth edges, top edge of pages lightly dusty. Inner hinges slightly detached. Text block is clean and bright, traces of foxing.