FIRST BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES

DARVIN, CHARLZ. [CHARLES DARWIN].

Proizkhodutu na vidovetie posriedstvom estestven podbor. [i.e. Bulgarian "Origin of Species" + "Autobiography"]. Part 1 (of 2).

Vidin, Pechatnitsa na Diukmedzhiev, 1905. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, in the original printed wrappers. The present volume includes includes "Autobiography" and first half of the "Origin". The second half was published shortly after. Spine lacking upper 5 cm and front wrapper with several nicks. Internally very fine and clean. (Autobiography:) 67, (2), [Origin of Speicies:] 236 pp. + frontiespiece of Darwin. Genealogical tree included in the pagination on p. 133.

Exceedingly rare first Bulgarian translation of Darwin's Origin of Species prefixed by his Autobiography, translated from the sixth London edition by M. Fiampova and I. H. A Timiryazova. Freeman lists the first Bulgarian translation of Origin of Species to be published in 1946. Darwin-Online states that: "I have found very little information on this translation or the associated names. It is a rare book, with no copies located in OCLC, KVK, or EL; however NALIS finds two, at the Bulgarian Central Medical Library and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.". Notice, however, OCLC list two copies.
The present publication was published in two separate publications, the first being offered here.

OCLC list two copies: The Thomas Fisher Library, Toronto and University Library of Oklahoma.

Order-nr.: 56932