FIRST UKRANIAN TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES'

DARWIN, CHARLES.

His Pokhodzhennia vydiv cherez pryrodnyi dobir, abo, Zberezhennia spryianykh porid u borotʹbi za zhyttia. (i.e. English: "Origin of Species)

(Kharkiv), Derzhavne medychne vyd-vo (State Medical Publishing House), 1936.

8vo. In publisher's original grey cloth binding with black lettering to spine with Darwin's portrait embossed on front board. Wear to extremities, corner bumped and light spoling to back board.  Inner hinges split and  first 3 leaves partly detached. Last 20 ff. slighly creased due to dampstain, otherwise internally a nice and clean copy. 674 pp. + frontispiece, portrait of Darwin and 1 plate with genealogical tree.

The exceedingly rare first Ukranian translation of Darwin's landmark 'Origin of Species'.

Order-nr.: 62681