Fine Ad for Darwin's "Variation of Animals..." 1869

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I don't often see big full page contemporary advertisements for works by Charles Darwin, so I was surprised and happy to see this big boy (12x9") in the August 1869 issue of American Agriculturalist for the Farm, Garden, and Household..  The first U.S. edition appeared in the previous year--but no matter, there was a lot of practical material in the book that no doubt the farmer/gardener readers of this very practical magazine could have used.  The six dollar price tag was a lot--more than 100 dollars in 2016 terms, and about a week's wages for a laborer, or a half-week's wages for a professional.