FIRST DUTCH TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S "THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN"

DARWIN, CHARLES.

Het Uitdrukken der Gemoedsaandoeningen bij den Mensch en de Dieren. [i.e.: "The Expression of the Emotions in Man"].

The Hague, Joh. Ykema, 1873. 8vo. In the original publisher's embossed full red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Previous owner's name to front end-paper and traces after a stamp to lower part of title-page. Spine with a bit of wear, otherwise a fine and clean copy. IX, (1), 435 pp.

The rare first Dutch translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man published the year after the original.
The Expression of the Emotions "is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment." (Freeman p. 142). Darwin concluded that "the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited."

Freeman 1182.

Order-nr.: 51711