Opshtamung fun Menshen un der Opklayb Beshayches tzu Geshlecht [“On the Origin of Species”].

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 106

DARWIN, CHARLES.

Opshtamung fun Menshen un der Opklayb Beshayches tzu Geshlecht [“On the Origin of Species”].

<<FIRST YIDDISH EDITION.>> With: A Guide to Darwinism by Professor J. Arthur Thomson. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated with 142 text illustrations. Three volumes bound in one. Vol. 1: pp. 364. * Vol. 2: pp. 368. * Vol. 3: pp. 312. Original boards. Thick 4to.

New York: Max Maisel 1921

Est: $400 - $600

First Yiddish edition of Darwin’s The Origin of Species, that first appeared in 1859. Translated by the New York physician and social activist Jacob Merison (1866-1941), translator of Das Kapital (see lot 196).