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Title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life Author: Darwin, Charles Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1860 Description: ix, 502 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear dated January 1860. Folding diagram. 20x12.5 cm. (7¾x4¾"), original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers stamped in blind, pale brown clay-glazed endpapers. Second Edition, Second Issue, with "Fifth Thousand" on title page. Scarce second edition of one of the most important scientific works of any century. The 1250 copies of the first edition of 1859 were sold out almost immediately and a reprint the same year was also quickly exhausted. This second edition, identified "Fifth Thousand" on the title page, incorporated some corrections and changes by the author. Binder's ticket of "Edmonds & Remnants, London" to rear pastedown. Freeman binding variant "a" with upright of "L" in London over right-hand upright of "H" in John. Ink name (Jon. Peel?) to top of title-page; ink notes (about English potatoes) in top and side margins of p.132. Freeman 376. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a bit of crimping to spine ends and corners; front hinge cracking with free endpaper partially detached, small hole in half-title-page affecting no printing, hinge cracking before advertisements, half of final advertisement leaf torn off, still very good or better, a fairly bright copy. Item number: 213690