L'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou La lutte pour l'existence dans la nature.

8vo (some min. spotting, offsetting on fold. diagram).

Green publ. cloth, flat gilt-titled spine (binding somewhat rubbed, tiny def. to head and tail). Uncut copy.

8th edition of the French translation of "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" by the well-known Ch. Darwin. "[...] This was Darwin's greatest work and one of the most important books ever published. [...] The evidence for the existence of evolution and that it resulted from the survival of the fittest by natural selection is marshalled and set out as never before" (Garrison & Morton). With folding diagram. Bookseller's list "En vente à la Librairie de C. Reinwald" bound in front.
Ref. BnF. - Cp. Garrison & Morton 220, Printing and the mind of man 344 b.
Prov. Valerie van Hoobrouck (arm. bookpl.).