[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful First Edition of Darwin's VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 fine 
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DARWIN,  Charles.  THE  VARIATION  OF  ANIMALS  AND  PLANTS  UNDER
DOMESTICATION.   New  York:  Orange  Judd   &  Company  (1868).  First
American.  Two volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt  lettering
on  the spines: [ii], iv, [iii]-iv, [v]-x, [11]-494 pages plus 6 pages
of  ads;  viii,  [9]-568,  plus 8 pages of  ads.  The  First  American
Edition,  published  in  the same year as the First  English  Edition.
Illustrated  with wood engravings in the text. Remarkably Fine,  clean
set, inside and out.                                           $600.00


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