The Origin of Species. [with] The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects [with] The Descent of Man. [and] Insectivorous Plants

Published by London: John Murray 1878, 1877, 1877, 1875, 1878

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Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United KingdomBow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)

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Four volumes, mixed editions. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green full calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red spine labels, the other compartments richly gilt, endpapers and all edges marbled , the early book label of a Walter Palmer of "The Acacias, Reading" to the front free endpapers. "Origin." with a folding plate, illustrations in the text throughout the other works. Foxing to the front and rear of each volume, some rubbing to the extremities, a handsome set of these early issues. "Origin of Species" - sixth edition, 20th thousand, dated 1878 (the second issue of the definitive text published two years earlier); "Various Contrivances." - second edition, revised (preceded only by the first edition of 1862); "Descent of Man" - second edition, 12th thousand, revised and augmented, 1877; "Insectivorous Plants" - second thousand (preceded only by the first issue published in July the same year). Freeman, 403, 801, 948 and 1217 respectively.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Origin of Species. [with] The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects [with] The Descent of Man. [and] Insectivorous Plants
Author
DARWIN, Charles
Publisher
London: John Murray 1878, 1877, 1877, 1875
Publication year
1878
Seller catalogs
Natural History

Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)

Lewes, United Kingdom

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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association…

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Literature, Topography & Travel, Maps & Atlases, Geology, Fine Bindings & Fore Edge Paintings, General Antiquarian, Science, Natural History, Sussex, Bloomsbury

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Bow Windows Bookshop Ltd.

175 High Street
Lewes, United Kingdom BN7 1YE