JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
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 (12×9″) 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.
