‎"DARVINAS, CARLZAS [CHARLES DARWIN].‎
‎Rusio Atsiradimas Naturaliosios Atrankos Budu. [i.e. Lithuanian ""Origin of Species""]. - [FIRST LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF DARWIN'S 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' AND 'AUTOBIOGRAPHY']‎

‎Vilnjus, [State Publishing House], 1959. 8vo. In publisher's full fabrikoid with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Small stamp on pasted down front end-paper. A fine copy. (3), 589 pp + frontiespiece of Darwin. (genealogical tree included in the pagination on p. 184).‎

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‎Rare first Lithuanian translation of Darwin's Origin of Species and his Autobiography. In 1921 a small extract from Voyage of the Beagle was translated and in 1938-39 extracts from Descent of Man was published. ""Thus far the largest of Darwin's works translated into Lithuanian is [the present]. The book contains a translation of Darwin's Origin of Species. The volume also contains Tadas Ivanauskas's Foreword to the Lithuanian translation, Kliment A. Timiriazev's article (Effect of the Darwinian revolution on the natural sciences of today), translated from the author's article in the Russian edition of the Origin of Species and Darwin's Autobiography. The publication also contains Vytautas Kauneckas's Explanations, providing the main information about the persons mentioned in the book and definitions of rearer terms."" (The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, Vol. 2).Freeman 738 & 1527.‎