The Power of Movement in Plants

by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin

$125,000 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 ads dated May 1878 pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges but not pages stained, an unsophisticated copy. § § First edition, first issue, inscribed in Charles Darwin’s hand, “Elizabeth Darwin, From her Father.”

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