DARWIN Origin Species defintive version translated Origine Espèces 1880 Barbier

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DARWIN Origin Species defintive version translated Origine Espèces 1880 Barbier :
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[Inventory IMPORTANT FINAL VERSION OF DARWIN EVOLUTION OF SPECIES TRANSLATED TO FRENCH. WHY IS THIS EDITION IMPORTANT, IF IT IS NOT THE ORIGINAL EDITION NOR THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION? Monsieur Edmond Barbier, the translator, gives us the best response for such a pertinent question that a Darwin collector of bibliophile doesn\'t allways acknowledge at the early stages of his collection: \"Several editions already appeared in France. None is complete, as the author, in each new english edition added important modifications to his work. The new translation that we submit to the public today was prepared after the sixth english edition. It is, as Mr. Darwin told us, the definitive edition\"
Also the focus of both translator and publisher was the precision of the informations, rather than the elegance of style and rethorics. Exactitude was to became the most important concept to this version.A collectible book, appraised at more than 150 euros on antiquarian booksellers at an affordable green percaline cover (stained), gilt title and author in the spine, 23x15cm, 604 pages.Published by C. Reinwald, in Paris, in 1880, translated by Edmond Barbier, the work was presented as \"L\'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou la lutte pour l\'existence dans la nature par Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., of Barbier\'s scientific translations: