DARWIN, Charles. Sulla origine della specie per elezione naturale. Torino, U.T.E.T., 1875

4to, 275x195 mm, publisher paperback. Work published in 11 pamphlets with continuous numbering (pp. 509 SBN pp. 512). Some pages printed on light blue paper. Three little rips on the binding.

Re-edition of the first Italian translation, due to Giovanni Canestrini, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Royal University of Padua, authorized by Darwin himself and regard the text of the sixth English edition. The first edition of Canestrini version appeared in Modena in 1864 and was based on the third English edition. The present Turin press updates the 1864 version, taking into account the modifications later made by Darwin to his masterpiece, called "the most important biological book ever written (Freeman), or the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit), whose absolutely exceptional influence on the scientific theories of the modern age is impossible to underestimate.