The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1890)

London : John Murray, 1890. Second edition, revised and augmented. Twenty-seventh thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (very slightly marked), light foxing to patterned endpapers, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, a few leaves very slightly crumpled, a fine copy.

The second edition, thirteenth issue, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection.

As Freeman notes: the word ‘evolution’ occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin’s works, on Page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, before its appearance in the sixth edition of the ‘Origin’ in the following year. This edition includes the Supplemental Note on Sexual Selection in Relation to Monkeys (Reprinted from Nature, November 2, 1876, p. 18). This first appeared in the 12th Thousand of 1877.

Freeman 970.