Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$298.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green hardboard cover has light shelf wear. Notation on inside cover. Pencil checkmarks on the page listing other books by the author, remaining inside pages are clean. Rough cut pages, at least one page was not cut. Spine cracked. Really interesting book.
Seller: FriendsFPL, Falmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$354.77 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. viii, 482 pp. Later green cloth with new endpapers, gilt lettered to the spine, double gilt rules to the upper board, the ink stamps of the People's Palace Library of East London to the title page and at instances thereafter through the book, rebound without the errata slip usually found facing p. viii. Tables in the text. The final leaf of the preliminaries slightly ragged to the edges. Freeman, 1249.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition. 1876 first edition Green cloth variant binding, top of edge of spine frayed Previous owner's bookplate and bookseller's stamp
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half polished calf; marbled boards & endpapers; five raised bands; ruled black morocco label to spine. Three line errata slip facing p.viii. Wear to head of spine & corners (see images), otherwise a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. viii, 482
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$767.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth, rubbing to spine edge. Original endpapers. Adverts to rear of title page. 482pp First Edition. A very good clean copy.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom" by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray, 1876 first UK edition, with errata leaf, hinges tender, original publisher's green blindstamped cloth gilt, spine paper linings renewed, lightly rubbed.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1025.77 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind rule to boards, brown coated eps, viii + 482pp, VG (moderate fraying to cloth of board edges & corners, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 2cm tear to cloth of spine side, some staining to boards, moderately heavy browning to page edges, some foxing throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$1665.82 + shipping
Description: 8°. Titel, VIII, 482 S. Mit Errata-Bl. u. zahlr. Tabellen im Text. Grüner OLn.-Bd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Kapitale u. Kanten etwas berieben, Rücken mit kl. Kratzspur.Titel mit gelöschtem Stempel, sonst gut erhalten, teils unbeschnitten. EA. Freeman 1249; Oxford DNB (Darwin) - Erstausgabe von Charles Darwins (1809-1882) botanischem Werk das auf jahrelangen Bestäubungsexperimenten, die Darwin ab 1866 durchführte basiert. Er zeigte "[.] statistically that the offspring of crosses are more vigorous than seedlings of self-fertilized parentage and thus more likely to survive." (Oxford DNB). Mit dem Errata-Zette vor Seite 1. Eine deutsche Übersetzung erschien 1877. Gewicht in Gramm: 1000
Seller: Antiquariat Burgverlag, Wien, Austria
Price: US$1882.56 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. viii,482pp. Octavo. Original green blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on spine. Top edge untrimmed. Coated brown endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Errata slip. Tables in text. A touch of very light wear otherwise a very attractive bright copy. Freeman 1249. A survey of the nature of the mechanisms favouring cross fertilisation and the advantages to be gained by it.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$2160.86 + shipping
Description: pp.viii, 482, one diagram, 109 tables and 3 line Errata slip at p.viii. 8vo. Two short closed tears to bottom margin of p.419, o/w. contents in fine condition. Original green cloth, boards very lightly shelf-rubbed, o/w. in fine condition. A nr. fine copy. Very pleasing. Freeman 1249. This The first edition which has an errata slip of three lines facing p.viii, was published on November 10, 1876. Freeman.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo (20 cm); viii, 482 pages. Advertisements for other works of the author on the verso of the title, 3-line errata slip tipped in prior to Chapter One. Original cloth. Owner's name in ink and old bookseller notations in pencil on front free endpaper. Else a fine copy in remarkably fresh condition. Reference: Freeman, 1249. "In which he began demonstrating the frequency with which plants had developed structures and processes favouring cross-pollination. . By experiment Darwin found that the plants which had been cross fertilized almost always grew taller and stronger than those which had pollinated themselves. . This was clearly a strong, if circumstantial, proof of his central thesis, natural selection: the adaptations to ease cross-fertilization were connected with a general increase in vigour; vigorous plants were more likely to survive in competitive circumstances; thus over the vast periods of evolutionary development, plants making cross-fertilization easier. . . will always have had an advantage over those that did not" (Brent, Charles Darwin, New York, 1981, p. 490)
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2580.13 + shipping
Description: First edition. Darwin's research on fertilization in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution and natural selection. To demonstrate that genetic variation gave organisms an advantage in the struggle for survival, he created weaker plants than those that had been cross-fertilized. Despite its technical nature, the book proved popular; published on 10 November, all 1,500 copies had sold by the end of the year. Provenance: with the ownership inscription of William Glynn Burton (1916-1989) and Marie Rosenberg Burton (1907-1982) to the front free endpaper verso. The couple were both botanists; William was a prominent scholar of the potato whilst Marie specialized in freshwater algae. Freeman 1249. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers panelled in blind, brown coated endpapers. With 3-line errata slip facing p. viii. Diagram and 109 letterpress tables in the text. Extremities rubbed resulting in a little wear to corners, spine ends bruised, cloth clean and bright, endpapers toned, foxing to contents, majority of gatherings partially unopened: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2832.47 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in green cloth. Neat owner name.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.