Le piante insettivore offered with Le diverse forme dei fiori in piante della stessa specie

by Carlo Darwin

$350 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1878; 1884. 8vo. 312; 239 pp. FIRST EDITIONS IN ITALIAN. Original printed wrappers. Item #15825 I: First and only Italian edition of Insectivorous plants, first published in London in 1875. Darwin’s meticulous study of the adaptation of plants, particularly under impoverished conditions. A chance observation of flies caught on a leaf of

• Binding: Wrappers

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