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Published by A M S Press, Inc.
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Text Figures (illustrator). First A M S Edition, Vol. 14. Copyright Date: 1896 Octavo, Hardcover, Green Cloth, 1972, PP.352, Volume 14 of the set.
Published by AMS Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 040408415XISBN 13: 9780404084158
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Used - Like New. AMS Press. Brooklyn, New York, 1972. Library Biding. 8vo. Book is As New. Reprinted from the New York edition of 1896. With index and 196 figures.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY, 1881
Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 592 pages. Ownership bookplate; previous owners ink signature. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.
Published by John Murray, London, 1882
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good -. Third Thousand. x, 592 pp, (no publisher's advertisements), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Circumnutating Movements of Seedling Plants; General Considerations of the Movements and Growth of Seedling Plants; Sensitiveness of the Apex of the Radicle to Contact and other Irritants; The Circumnutating Movements of the several parts of Mature Plants; Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements; Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons; Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves; Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Light; Sensitiveness of Plants to Light: its transmitted effects: Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Gravitation; Localised Sensitiveness to Gravitation, and its Transmitted Effects; Summary and Concluding Remarks; Index. A few scattered tiny foxing marks on verso of free endpapers and on adjacent pages, some gilt lettering and decorarion on the spine has faded slightly (not on spine label), some tiny edge chips on spine label, darkening to top of text block, light to moderate edge wear to boards/corners, small areas of flaking to leather on hinges, red leather on spine and somewhat at corners has faded to light brown.
Published by John Murray, London, 1880
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: 8" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Green cloth over boards, gilt-stamping along spine, 592 pages plus 32 pages of ads dated May, 1878, two lines of errata on p. x, presentation in publisher's clerk's hand on front free flyleaf. Corners and spine ends bumped, covers have minor stains/signs of rubbing, small divot on spine with fraying cloth, front board loosening but still attached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015379.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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." Presentation copies from Darwin, in his own hand, are exceptionally rare (most presentation copies were inscribed "from the author" by the publisher); a copy inscribed to a family member by Darwin himself is extraordinarily so. Elizabeth Darwin, known as Bessy, was Charles and Emma Darwin's youngest daughter and perhaps the most enigmatic of all their ten children. She is remembered as a quiet soul who lived in the family home until the death of her mother, and then in a cottage on her own near her three brothers until her death in 1926. The book which Darwin has inscribed to her was written with the assistance of her brother, Francis, who had himself become an accomplished botanist. It is an extension of Darwin's earlier work on movement in climbing plants, showing that the same mechanisms hold true for flowering plants in general. It was well reviewed and immediately sold 1500 copies.Darwin was an exceptionally affectionate father whose anxious feelings for his own children greatly spurred his study of inherited characteristics and of evolution. (He and his wife Emma were first cousins, a genetic liability that tormented him.) This book, written in partnership with one of his children and presented to another, is a potent testament to the intertwining of scientific genius and fatherhood that so characterized Darwin and catalyzed his momentous career. Books inscribed by Darwin to his children are extremely rare on the market. The last such book at auction - a copy of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, inscribed by Darwin to his daughter Henrietta (who had edited the book) - sold for £90,000 at Sotheby's in 2015.