April 12, 2024
Charles Darwin - Expression of Emotions - London 1872 - 1ST EDITION 1ST ISSUE
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Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872.8vo. (125 x 190 mm.), pp. vi, 374, 4 (publisher’s advertisements dated November 1872). With 7 heliotype plates (3 folding) and numerous woodcuts in the text. Uncut in the original publisher’s green cloth binding, boards decorated in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Endpapers partially cracked over the upper interior joint, but joint secure; occasional very faint spotting; short closed tear in the blank margin of one leaf; extremities very slightly rubbed. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with “that” correctly spelled in the first line of p. 208) of Charles Darwin’s highly important The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals . Darwin started writing Expression two days after correcting the page proofs for The Descent of Man , finishing it in 4 months, just before he wrote the sixth and last edition of The Origin of Species . “In its wealth of fascinating observations about human and animal expressions this extraordinary book is unparalleled even today, more than one hundred years after it was written. Darwin illuminates not only our expressions, but those of cats, dogs, horses, and many other animals… For each and every expression, Darwin asks and answers the question of why a particular
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