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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection… London: John Murray, 1890. 8vo. [2, blank], [xxii], [1]-458, [32, publisher's ads, dated April, 1889]. Publisher's full green cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine stamped in gilt, patterned endleaves (some rubbing, light bumping to binding, front hinge cracked, ffep. missing, bookseller's ticket on fp., faint ownership signature on front blank, rear hinge just starting, remaining endleaves toned, foxed). Good. SIXTH EDITION, THIRTY-NINTH THOUSAND. This is the final issue of the sixth edition, first published in 1872. It was the sixth edition in which Darwin first used the term “evolution" in the current sense that we use today.