Paris: Guillaumin et Cie; Victor Masson et Fils, 1862. First edition in French of the single most important biological work ever written, and the most disputed of its early translations — rendered, prefaced, footnoted, retitled, and intellectually re-framed by Clémence-Auguste Royer, the self-taught philosopher, economist, and feminist whom Darwin, reading..... More
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Cambridge: [the University Press for the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1835. First edition, very rare, of Darwin’s first separately printed work — the thirty-one-page pamphlet in which John Stevens Henslow, Cambridge Regius Professor of Botany, Darwin’s mentor and the man who had secured him his berth on the Beagle, printed selected..... More
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