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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. London: John Murray, 1862.
8o (196 x 122 mm). Folding wood-engraved plate and numerous wood-engravings in text by George B. Sowerby. Original plum cloth decorated in gilt and blind, gilt-stamped with orchid device on upper cover (Freeman variant a), 32-pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated December 1861 (some chipping and splitting along joints).
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, inscribed (in the hand of a publisher's clerk) on front flyleaf: "From the Author." This work was the first of Darwin's volumes of evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Freeman 800; Norman 595.
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PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, inscribed (in the hand of a publisher's clerk) on front flyleaf: "From the Author." This work was the first of Darwin's volumes of evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Freeman 800; Norman 595.