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 inf