origin species facsimile first edition de darwin charles, Original o primera edición (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A handsome copy of a particularly useful edition of Darwin, with the original text and modern interpretation on the same page. Overall, this copy is barely distinguishable from a brand-new book. The book itself looks brand-new; the jacket shows only the slightest signs of wear. CAUTION: some of the vendors offering this book online do not actually have a copy in stock; their description of the book's condition is therefore guesswork. Buy from a seller who does have the book and can attest that it is described accurately.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, large 8vo. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. This edition is now out of print in cloth. 'Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is the most important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. Now James T. Costaexperienced field biologist, theorist on the evolution of insect sociality, and passionate advocate for teaching Darwin in a society in which a significant proportion of adults believe that life on earth has been created in its present form within the last 10,000 yearshas given a new voice to this epochal work. By leading readers line by line through the Origin, Costa brings evolution's foundational text to life for a new generation. The Annotated Origin is the edition of Darwin's masterwork used in Costa's course at Western Carolina University and in Harvard's Darwin Summer Course at Oxford. A facsimile of the first edition of 1859 is accompanied by Costa's extensive marginal annotations, drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin's ideas in the field, lab, and classroom. This edition makes available an accessible, useful, and practical resource for anyone reading the Origin for the first time or for those who want to reread it with the insights and perspective that a working biologist can provide' (Harvard University Press Web site). 'Clearly worth attention . . . Costa makes use of his experience as a field naturalist and his knowledge of the modern literature of evolutionary biology to illumine many passages in Darwin's work' (Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books). 'We have long had the simple facsimile of the all-important first edition of the Origin, published by the same press (Harvard) with a short introduction by the eminent evolutionist Ernst Mayr. Now we have a much expanded work, with the most interesting comments and brief essays by a first-class biologist lined up on the pages against the original text' (Michael Ruse, Quarterly Review of Biology). 'On the Origin of Species has too long been one of those worthy books whose fate is to be lauded but unread. Jim Costa's deft commentaryan authoritative and engaging mix of history and sciencewill change that. The Origin is forbidding and inaccessible no longerit has evolved! The Annotated Origin of Species restores, for modern readers, the freshness and excitement that made it a bestseller when it first appeared. Charles Darwin, I'm sure, couldn't wish for a better 200th birthday present' (Andrew Berry, editor of Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology). 'Despite being 150 years old, the Origin is a living text for biologists. It is full of unsurpassed natural history observations, a model of careful scientific argument that still can catch the imagination with the grandeur of the views it puts forward. Jim Costa has provided an exceptionally lucid explanation' (Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: The Power of Place). 'The Annotated Origin is a culminating and, in an original manner of its own, the most useful of the centennial Darwin publications. It gives you the choice of reading page by page the original Origin, or its modern interpretation, or both together' (Edward O. Wilson).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. xxvii + Reprint in Facsimile [ix, 502 pp]. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (unclipped). John Murray originally printed 1250 copies of the book which 'caused a greater upheaval in man's thinking than any other scientific advance since the rebirth of science in the Renaissance (Mayr, Introduction). 'The publication of the Origin of Species ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times . Every modern discussion of man's future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man's place in nature rests on Darwin.' 'One of the things that most people don't realize, in fact some people have even denied, was the conceptual achievements of Darwin. For instance, even such a usually insightful person like George Gaylord Simpson stated, 'Darwin was no philosopher'. Well, Darwin was one of the greatest of all philosophers, but that wasn't recognized when Simpson made that statement in about 1964. I felt that The Origin, particularly the first edition of . . . of 1859, was too much neglected and the reprints didn't keep the same paging so you couldn't refer to Darwin's original statements. So, I persuaded Harvard University Press in 1964 to publish a facsimile edition of the first edition. And since I had just published the, with Harvard Press, the highly successful Animal Species [and Evolution] in order to . . . to oblige me they said yes, they would publish such a facsimile edition. Well, it has been selling ever since [looks like it was last reprinted in 2003-TK]. In fact, I think last year it sold in one single year 2200. It's been . . . Darwin's Origin has been one of the most successful books that Harvard Press has ever published and I get 5¢ per copy for my foreword, the new foreword I wrote, and so I am being enriched by courtesy of Charles Darwin' (transcript of part 130/150 of a 1997 interview with Walter Bock, available on YouTube).