ON THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, AND ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF INTERCROSSING.
Published by London John Murray, 1862
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FIRST EDITION 1862, RESTORED EX LIBRARY COPY, no visible signs of being a library copy except for a pale patch on spine due to removal of library number, variant b, no vertical lines to cloth covers. 8vo, approximately 200 x 130 mm, 8 x 5 inches, folding illustration at page 18 plus 33 woodcut illustrations in the text, pages: vi, 1-365 including index, followed by 16 pages of publisher's catalogue dated January 1872, original publisher's plum cloth, gilt lettering to spine, central gilt orchid to upper cover, blind stamped decoration to covers, new black endpapers, page edges untrimmed as issued. Binding expertly rebacked, original backstrip laid on, just showing a little new cloth at foot of spine, slight rubbing to cloth, slightly affecting gilt lettering and orchid, a few small pale spots to covers, pale browning to title page, tiny repair to fold on blank side of folding plate, with special archival clear tape, hardly visible, occasional small brown spot, last 3 leaves of catalogue at rear foxed, slight pale signs of handling in outer margins. A good tight copy. See Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin pages 112-113, Freeman does not mention copies with publishers's catalogue dated January 1872. Fertilisation of Orchids was concerned with working out in detail the relationship between sexual structures of orchids and the insects which fertilise them, their evolution being attributed to natural selection. It is therefore the first of the volumes of supporting evidence for Origin of Species. This is the only Murray Darwin between 1859 and 1910 not bound in green cloth. Life and Letters of Darwin, Volume 3 page 274 quotes Asa Gray as saying 'if the Orchid-book (with a few trifling omissions) had appeared before the "Origin" the author would have been canonised rather than anathematised by the natural theologians', and notes that a review in the Literary Churchman found only one fault 'that Mr Darwin's expression of admiration at the contrivances in orchids is too indirect a way of saying "O Lord, how manifold are thy works"'; Sotheby's catalogue, Darwin's Century: The Jeremy Norman Collection, page 53, No.127. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured.…
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- Title
- ON THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, AND ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF INTERCROSSING.
- Author
- CHARLES DARWIN.
- Publisher
- London John Murray
- Publication year
- 1862
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.
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