DARWIN, Charles. L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou la lutte pour l'existence dans la nature. Traduit sur l'édition anglaise definitive par Ed. Barbier. Paris, C. Reinwald, 1880<BR

8vo, mm. 230x140; Original binding in green percaline, golden title on the spine; pp. XXI, 604, 20 with the publishing catalog; one copper plate engraved by Erhard.

Important French edition, updated and renewed based on the final edition. In Avis du traducteur, Barbier recalled that in France had appeared several versions of the Origin of Species, but no complete, because the author, in each new English edition, had made major changes to his work: "La Nouvelle traduction que nous soumettons aujourd'hui au public a été faite sur la sixième édition anglaise. C'est l'édition définitive, nous écrit M. Darwin".

Freeman, n. 661.

Bound with:

DARWIN Charles. De la variation des animaux et des plantes sous l'action de la domestication. Traduit de l'anglais par J.-J. Moulinié. Preface de Carl Vogt. Paris, C. Reinwald, 1868.

2 vols. 8° mm. 230 x 140, pp. XVI, 444, [2], 17 publisher's catalog; pp. [4], 532, [8], with 43 engravings in the first tome. Publisher binding in full cloth, golden titles and ornaments on the spine, blind tooling on covers.

First French translation, published a very early stage in the same year of the original English edition, the only part of the vast work on the origins of the species, which was published the author living. "This represent the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters... A large part of it contains detailed facts about artificial selection and discussion of them, but it also contains, in Chapter XXVII, his provisional hypothesis of pangenesis..."

[Freeman, p. 122]. [Gillispie, Dict. Scientific Biogr., III/p. 574]. Freeman, The works of Ch. D., An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist, n. 912.

Slight sign of foxing, nice specimen, for the most uncut, regarding the first work.

Slight sign of foxing, sign of wear at the binding good specimen.