The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-v, [5], 2-374, [14] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red-orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers, pastedowns replaced, six new white endpapers in addition to the originals. Illustrated with seven heliotype plates (three folding), and with many full-page and in-text wood engravings. Freeman 1143. Garrison-Morton 4246. The first American edition of Darwin's landmark studies in human and animal psychology and physiology. An examination of the physiological and psychological causes of several core emotions in mammals. Darwin also examines the role of evolution in the expression and developement of emotions in different species of animals over geologic time. Good. Item #000010481
Recently rebacked with a piece of the original spine laid down; the first blank leaf and one plate loose but laid in, one plate with a tape repair to the gutter.
Price: $350.00