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Darwin (Charles) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, first issue, John
Darwin (Charles) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, first issue, John
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Darwin (Charles) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, first issue, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), numbered in Roman, wood-engraved illustrations in text, lacking advertisements at end, occasional very light foxing, faint marking to title, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with black morocco label, upper cover a little soiled, light rubbing to extremities, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box, [Freeman 1141; G&M 4975], 8vo, John Murray, 1872.

⁂ "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" - Freeman p.141.
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Darwin (Charles) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, first issue, John

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