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.
⁂ "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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