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Good+ Strong, tight and clean. With illustrations. Marbled boards with three-quarter red leather and gilded titling on spine. Top edge gilt. Corners rubbed. Spine bottom frayed. Spine top worn with one-inch tear along front edge. Nameplate. Professional book dealer with storefront since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
Fair. NOT ex-library. Edgewear & bumping. Spine and edges very darkened. Pages yellowed. Binding firm. 462 pages. All items shipped within 2 business days and guaranteed. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library, serving the greater Tucson area.
Good. 1898 authorized editon tight heavy maroon c; oth rebound withdrawn library with all the markings previous owner's name on title page small hole in title page interior clean.
Good+ No Jacket. No date. Circa 1899. #666 of 1000. Westminster Editiion. Authorized Edition. Red cloth. Gilt at top of pages. Hinges starting. Boards show moderate wear. Table of Contents uncut. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.
Very Good. 8vo. D. Appleton & Co., 1898. 3rd edition. Pp. X, 462, 30 figs. 3/4 leather. Marbled boards. Modern brown leather spine with handsome black moroccan leather spine label. Top edge gilt. Rebacked. Fine binding. A superior copy. Name on first end page. See our picture.
Very Good. 376 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Limited edition; 1 of1000 copies (not numbered). Selected Works of Charles Darwin; Westminster Edition. Some very light soiling & wear to boards. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Faint foxing to textblock edges. Foxing to pds & eps. Slight separation to pgs 210-211, otherwise textblock clean & crisp. Vintage publisher order form laid in.
Original green cloth binding, octavo. Spine is split two inches down front side and torn across half an inch at top on back side. Blind stamp binding, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Binding broken with section 64-122 detached but present. Otherwise internal is clean and in good condition. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket.
Very good in original green cloth, corners mildly worn, hinges cracked but holding, spine lettering fairly bright. Same year as the first printing. Errata slip tipped in. Duodecimo. 14 x 19.5 cm. x; 462 pp. With occasional reproductions of illustrations.
8vo., (7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches). Half-title, publisher's advertisement to verso of title page. 30 in-text illustrations (some spotting throughout). Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (a bit rubbed, extremities worn with some loss). Provenance: With ownership inscription of George Basalla to front free endpaper. Freeman's sale 1540, April 4, 2016, Lot 177. First edition, "third thousand." FIRST EDITION of Darwin's study of insectivorous plants, with illustrations throughout. Figures 7 and 8 were engraved from drawings by Darwin. "Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid-1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that allowed him to refine his work: 'The delay in this case, as with all my other books, has been a great advantage to me; for a man after a long interval can criticise his own work, almost as well as if it were that of another person. ' Several decades after he began this work, Darwin was clearly able to see that a plant 'should secrete' a 'fluid...closely analogous to the digestive fluid of an animal, was certainly a remarkable discovery. ' The resulting volume, 'Insectivorous Plants' (1875) [as here], was one in a series of works in which Darwin explored the reaches of natural selection. This work allowed Darwin to focus on the features of insectivorous plants that allowed them to survive in difficult environments. Darwin used several experiments to stimulate the plants' trap mechanisms, including feeding them meat, blowing on them, and stimulating them with hair. Through his work he concluded that the plants would only react to the movements of 'prey'; Darwin believed that this was a wonderful adaptation for the plants as it enabled them to ignore unhelpful stimuli. "The monograph is an excellent example of Darwin's interest in scientific collaboration with other naturalists and experts; in particular he worked with Professor Edward Frankland of the Royal College of Chemistry in designing and executing some of the key experiments. Darwin's sons George and Francis helped him with the illustrations for the volume, each working up illustrations for the key species Darwin was most interested in: Drosera, Dionaea, Aldrovanda, and Utricularia. He also corresponded with the New Jersey naturalist, Mary Treat, about carnivorous plants. Darwin and Treat exchanged fifteen letters from 1871-1876 about the behavior and mechanisms of these plants. Darwin corresponded more with Treat than with any other female naturalist" (Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge online). Freeman 1219. For more information about this book, or a warm welcome to see it and other books in our library at 72nd Street, NYC, please contact Megan Scauri, M.A., M.L.S., in the Rare Book Department.
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