FIRST BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES

DARVIN, CHARLZ. [CHARLES DARWIN].

Proizkhodutu na vidovetie posriedstvom estestven podbor. [i.e. Bulgarian "Origin of Species" + "Autobiography"].

Vidin, Lozanov and Dukemedjiev Printing House, 1905. 8vo. In a contemporary half calf binding. Two stamps to title-page and 28 stamps in margins throughout the book. Extremities with wear and soiling. A few leaves with tears. (Autobiography:) 67, (2), [Origin of Speicies:] 595, (5) pp. + frontiespiece of Darwin. Genealogical tree included in the pagination on p. 133.

Rare first Bulgarian translation of Darwin's Origin of Species prefixed by his Autobiography, translated from the sixth London edition by M. Fiampova and I. H. A Timiryazova. Freeman lists the first Bulgarian translation of Origin of Species to be published in 1946. Darwin-Online states that: "I have found very little information on this translation or the associated names. It is a rare book, with no copies located in OCLC, KVK, or EL; however NALIS finds two, at the Bulgarian Central Medical Library and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.". Notice, however, OCLC list two copies.

OCLC list two copies: The Thomas Fisher Library, Toronto and University Library of Oklahoma.

Freeman F1986

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