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From D. Appleton & Co.   1 February 1874

Sales by D Appleton & Co to Feby 1/74

for a/c of Charles Darwin
Origin of species1
Feby 1/73 On hand 893
July Printed 1000
Feby 1/74 On hand 775
Ed short 27
Sold 1,091. 5% @$2 $109.10
1,893
Expression of Emotions2
1873
Feby 1. On hand 2353
Feby 1/74 On hand 1832
Sold 521 10% @350 182 35
$ 291.45
Descent of Man3
1873 Feby 1/ 603
" Printed 1000
Ed over 16
1619
1874
Feby 1. On hand Vol 1 & 2 728
Sold 891 10% @$2 178.20
$469.65
Value in Sterling, Exch 48888. Gold 113 £85.0.2
1
D. Appleton & Co. published the third US edition of Origin (from the sixth London edition) in 1873; they may also have had on hand copies of the second US edition (from the fifth London edition), which was published in 1870.
2
The London edition of Expression was published in November 1872, and the US edition in December 1872, although the date given on the title page is 1873 (Freeman 1977).
3
The US edition of Descent was published in 1871.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9261,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9261