FIRST SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES

DARWIN, CHARLES.

Om Arternas Uppkomst genom naturligt Urval eller de bäst utrustade rasernas Bestånd i Kampen för Tillvaron. Öfversättning från femte Originalupplagan af A.M. Selling.

Stockholm, L.J. Hiertas Förlagsexpedition, 1871.

8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine and gilt ornamentation forming five compartments. Hindges with a few worm holes, back hindges mostly affected, but binding still tight and firmly attached to book block. Previous owner's stamp to pasted down front end-paper. Internally extraordinarily fine and clean. XI, (1), 420 pp. + plate with genealogical tree inserted between p. 96 and p. 97.

The rare first Swedish translation, also being the first in Scandinavia, of Darwin's Origin of Species. Initially the work mainly received attention from religious institutions who (also compared to most other countries) were fiercely against Darwin's theory.

Freeman wrongly lists this first Swedish edition as appearing in 1869, he also does not register the plate.

Order-nr.: 56496