La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle.

2 vol., 8vo: [4]-xv-[1 bl.]-452-24, [4]-iii-[1 bl.]-494-[1] pp. (some spotting and dampstaining).

Publisher's full green cloth (loosening bookblock vol. 1), gilt flat spines.

First French translation of Darwin's "Descent of Man", building a bridge between biology, the social sciences, and the humanities. So-called Darwinism became a broad system of research designs, theoretical principles, and philosophical outlook. The word "evolution" occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of "The origin of species" in the following year" (Freeman).
Ref. Freeman, The works of Charles Darwin, p. 129. - BnF. - COPAC.
Prov. S.P. de Sinçay (bookpl.). - Stamps.
Joined, same author and title. Paris, C. Reinwald & Cie, 1891. Third French ed. - Wallace, A.R. - Darwinism. An exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London, Macmillan and Co, 1890. Corr. reprint of the first ed. Ill. in b/w in-text. (4 vol.)