On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. First edition of Timiryazev's translation.

Darwin, Charles [The Works. Vol. 1. Autobiography. The Voyage of the Beagle. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life]. Avtobiographiia. Puteshestvie Vokrug Sveta na Korable “Bigl’”. Proiskhozhdenie Vidov Putem Estestvennogo Otbora ili Sokhranenie Izbrannykh Porod v Borbe za Zhizn.

Translation by K. Timiryazev and E. Beketova.

Sankt-Peterburg, O.N. Popova, 1896. 
8vo, [1], 36, [4], 316 pp., [4] l.ill., [4], X, 327, [5] pp., [1] l.ill.

In contemporary quarter leather and blue cloth boards. Back cover of original printed wrappers bound in.
In good condition, cloth darked with some spotting, leather scuffed with small losses, binder’s printed label to back endpaper. 

First edition of the significant Russian translation of 'On the Origin of Species' by Kliment Timiryazev.

The first Russian translation of Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' was completed in 1864, based on the American edition of 1860 and heavily influenced by the first German translation (1860).
A second translation appeared in 1896, offered in two versions—one by journalist, historian, and mathematician Mikhail Filipov, and the other by the renowned Russian botanist and physiologist Kliment Timiryazev (1843-1920), a prominent advocate for Darwin's theories in Russia. Both translations were based on Darwin's final, 6th edition (1876).
This first volume of the four-volume series 'The Works' by Darwin features Timiryazev's first translation. As a young student at the University of St. Petersburg in 1860, Timiryazev first encountered Darwin's theory of the origin of species. After graduating, he traveled to Heidelberg for further study and research, where he spent much of his time with Vladimir Kovalevsky, a passionate Russian Darwinist. In 1877, Timiryazev, after some difficulty, managed to arrange a meeting with Charles Darwin at Down House. Upon returning to Russia, Timiryazev devoted himself to defending and promoting Darwin's theories. His translations of Darwin's works are considered the highest quality, both in translation accuracy and scientific editing.

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