[Rarebooks] FS: Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES with 71 illustrations engraved in wood by Paul Landacre

[Charles Agvent]

DARWIN, Charles. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Adelaide: Limited Editions 
Club, 1963. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound with a black wallaby hide spine 
impressed in gold leaf with a symbolic design and bearing a green inlaid 
label on which the title and author are stamped in gold; sides are wood 
veneer; 504 pages. Copy #39 of 1500 printed on Australian smooth 
cream-tone paper by the Griffin Press in Australia under the supervision 
of Douglas Dunstan. Introduction by Sir Charles G. Darwin, grandson of 
the author. With 71 illustrations engraved in wood by Paul Landacre, 6 
of them full-page two-color engravings. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter 
laid in. Fine in a Fine slipcase. A beautiful book. (#017796)        $325.00

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