The Origin of Species; Darwin; Easton Press Leather Bound

Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 1991 Full Leather

Bound in full leather with 22 karat gold decoration and gilded endpaper (all three sides); raised spine hubs; sewn-in ribbon marker; high-quality paper; silk moire fabric endpapers; sewn pages for strength and durability.

On The Origin of Species is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology; it was published on 24 November 1859. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had collected on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Some scuffing and shelf-wear on spine and edges. This listing uses material from the Wikipedia article On the Origin of Species, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.