Sale 2549 - Lot 138
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Sale 2549 - Lot 138
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects.
London: John Murray, 1862.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with folding plate, and thirty-three text illustrations, sixteen pages of publisher's ads dated May 1872 after text; bound in publisher's original textured purple-brown pebbled cloth, embossed in blind on both boards, titled in gilt on spine, with a large gold-blocked orchid on front board, brown coated endleaves, some minor bumping to endcaps, short area at top joint worn through (less than 1/2 in.), spine faded, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Freeman 800; Norman 595.
In this work, Darwin illustrates the theories presented in On the Origin of Species.
On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects.
London: John Murray, 1862.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with folding plate, and thirty-three text illustrations, sixteen pages of publisher's ads dated May 1872 after text; bound in publisher's original textured purple-brown pebbled cloth, embossed in blind on both boards, titled in gilt on spine, with a large gold-blocked orchid on front board, brown coated endleaves, some minor bumping to endcaps, short area at top joint worn through (less than 1/2 in.), spine faded, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Freeman 800; Norman 595.
In this work, Darwin illustrates the theories presented in On the Origin of Species.