On The Power Possessed By Leaves Of Placing Themselves At Right Angles To The Direction Of Incident

by Francis Darwin

$850 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer and Williams and Norgate, June 3, 1881. 8vo. 419-473 pp. FIRST PRINTING. With 3 plates and 17 woodcuts in text. Original blue printed wrappers, some minor chipping, otherwise a very good unopened copy. Item #12585 FIRST PRINTING of this extensive article on the phototropism of plants, written by Charles Darwin's son. He expounds upon a topic that

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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