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Darwin, CharlesBiblio.com

Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)Biblio.com

The origin of species 1880

40452by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray 1880. Sixth edition with additions and corrections to 1872 twenty-second thousand. Octavo original publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth corners a little rubbed slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine original endpapers lightly foxed upper hinge reglued pp xxi blank 458 folding lithographed plate light foxing to preliminaries. A very good copy. Printed from stereos of the eleventh thousand and the third issue of the final definitive text Darwin having made some very minor corrections to the eighteenth thousand as per Freeman. A fine copy of the sixth edition of one of the most important texts in the history of science. The first edition of 1859 a great rarity is described in Freeman as "". the most important biological work ever written.""; Dibner "". the most important single work in science.""; Printing & the Mind of Man "". revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken."" The sixth edition extensively rewritten by Darwin and published in 1872 removed the word 'On' from the title 'On the origin of species' and includes rebuttal of Roman Catholic biologist St. George Mivart's theological arguments in his 1871 text On the Genesis of Species. The sixth edition is significant for including the use of the word 'evolution' for the first time in furtherance of Darwin's argument for natural selection. It is the last edition published in Darwin's lifetime and includes extensive revisions and rewriting by the author. The sixth edition went through numerous printings and includes all Darwin's revisions since On the origin of species was first released in 1859. It is considered the definitive text for what many consider to be the most significant scientific book ever published. Freeman 405 hardcover

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DARWIN, M FBiblio.com

One Moral Standard For All.

1915167211New York: Caulon Press 1915. First edition first printing of this biographical pamphlet celebrating the lives of the first women stockbrokers. Woodhull 1838-1927 and Claflin 1846-1923 were key figures in American first-wave feminism as advocates for women's education employment and free love. "Their history is really the history of women in America during the last half century" Introduction. After making a living as clairvoyants and spiritual healers in the Midwest the sisters moved to New York during the late 1860s. They opened their Wall Street brokerage firm Woodhull Claflin & Co. on 19 January 1870 to prove that "woman no less than man can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life" Robb p. 114. With some initial support from Claflin's lover Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794-1877 and the extensive publicity generated by a press fascinated with the "Queens of Finance" their firm was relatively profitable at first. They cornered a source of investment capital - the fortunes and business interests of women - which other brokerages had either deliberately or otherwise failed to tap. However the sisters' energies soon drifted to other causes and helped by the Panic of 1873 the brokerage house closed its doors the same year. "However brief perfunctory and ultimately unsuccessful Woodhull and Claflin's brokerage career proved to be it remains an important watershed in women's history" ibid. p. 121. Undeterred Claflin and Woodhull continued to break down barriers while advocating for women's rights and labour reforms. They were among the first women to found a newspaper in America: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly provided extensive coverage of economic issues and prided itself on exposing fraudulent dealings and corporate corruption and it was also the first American periodical to print The Communist Manifesto. In addition both sisters ran for office Claflin running for Congress in 1871 and Woodhull becoming the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872. There is little information available about the author M. F. Darwin. He states in the introduction that he came across Woodhull and Claflin's story "when perusing old files of American newspaper" and was "so deeply touched by the work and terrible experiences of the sisters that I at once made up my mind to write their lives". He also writes that the pamphlet was intended to precede a forthcoming larger work on Woodhull and Claflin but we have been unable to trace evidence that this ever appeared. This work is relatively uncommon institutionally. WorldCat locates 11 copies all of which are in the US: New York State Library American Antiquarian Society Library Massachusetts Historical Society Library and the university libraries of Michigan Texas Yale Cornell Kansas Hamilton College Johns Hopkins and Princeton. We can trace no copies in auction records. Small octavo. With 15 full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers wire-stitched. Nicks to extremities slight soiling to wrappers centrally creased contents clean: a very good copy. George Robb Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression 2017. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni575,00 £GB≈ 656,54 €

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