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First Hungarian Edition of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Darwin, Charles

Az ember származása és az ivari kiválás. Irta —. A második javitott és bövített eredeti kiadásból forditották Török Aurél és Entz Géza. Az eredetivel összehasonlította és Darwin életrajzát irta hozzá Margó Tivadar. 78 fametszetü ábrával. Elsö (Második) kötet. [The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.]

Budapest: Kiadja a M. K. Természettudományi Társulat, 1884. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s red buckram, with gilt title on spine, and front panels blind stamped, in two volumes. LXXI, (1), (1)–542, (2); VII, (5), (1)–436 p. With bookplates and contemporary bookseller’s vignette on inner front panels. Covers are slightly rubbed at extremities. Endpapers reinforced at joints. Overall in very good condition.

First Hungarian edition of Darwin’s 1871 book on human evolution and sexual selection, “The Descent of Man”.

Tivadar Margo (1816–1896) was a biologist, the author of Darwin’s biography, written for this edition, and one of the earliest Hungarian Darwinists, who wrote the first Hungarian zoological book that based on Darwin’s idea about the evolution. Margo had the chance to meet Darwin personally in 1875, he describes this meeting in the introduction of this book, and also in the memorial lecture he held after the death of Darwin, his fellow member of the Academy of Sciences (Darwin was Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as early as 1872).

Aurél Török, Géza Entz, and Margo, the translators and contributors of this book are among the most important figures to spreading Darwinism in Hungary.

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Price: €1,000.00