Darwin, Charles.
THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS.
John Murray, 1872. 1st Ed. 2nd Issue. vi + 374pp. [Without the two leaves of integral adverts.] 21 ills., 7 heliotype plates including 3 folding (plates 1 and 2 with minor shaving to head affecting plate no. only). Ex.-lib. with remains of discreet ink stamp to verso of t.p., ink stamp to leading corner of one leaf, some light browning, light offsetting and browning to plates, rebound in modenr green half morocco with green cloth boards, gilt motifs and lettering to spine.
¶ Freeman 1142. ‘This is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment.’ 2nd Issue with 3 preliminary leaves and ‘htat’ in the first line of page 208. Arabic numbering to the plates ‘it seems probable that the Arabic set was the earlier’ [of the two states of plates].
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Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; BIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, EVOLUTION