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77/1796 Darwin. C. De l'origine des espèces par sélection naturelle ou des lois de transformation des êtres organisés. French transl. C.A. Royer. Paris, V. Masson et Fils/ Guillaumin et Cie., 1866, 2nd ed., (4),LIX,(1),614,(1)p., lithogr. plate, contemp. gilt calf.

- Hinges weak; owner's entry on upper pastedown/ htitle; occas. sl. foxed. = Freeman 656.

Idem. The Foundations of the Origin of Species. Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844. Ed. F. Darwin. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1909, XXVII,(1),263p., photogr. facs. portrait, contemp. cloth w. gilt coat of arms of EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL on frontcover.

- Top of spine chipped. Contents fine.

= With "Miller Prize for French (Upper School)", dated 1926-1927 and awarded to Elsie Alderton, after whom the character of obsessive would-be writer Laura Wissilcraft in Henry W. Williamson's novel The Gale of the World (1969) was modelled. Freeman 1556.

AND 1 other on the same: R.B. FREEMAN, The Works of Charles Darwin (London, 1965, orig. cl. w. (dam.) dustwr.).

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