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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Front cover loose, almost separated. Title panel missing on spine. Foxing end papers. Previous owner's name. Previous owner's book plate inside front cover. Marbled edges of text block. Marbled boards and end pages. Leather spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. 300 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xvi, 300 pp; 38 woodcut figs.; 32 page John Murray catalogue, dated January 1879. Original cloth. Upper corner of front cover slightly bent, but still Near Fine. A bright, tight, copy. Second Edition, Revised. Freeman 801. "In 1869, Darwin published a paper (No. 1748) which is an English version of some matter which was prepared for insertion in the first French translation of the book. This matter was incorporated in the second English edition of 1877 [offered here]. The text of this [second edition] was considerably altered and the inserted Figure 1 is now incorporated. Its title is condensed by the omission of "On" and "British and Foreign" as well as the last phrase" [the full title of the first edition was: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing] (Freeman, pp. 112-13). Freeman 1748 is "Notes on the Fertilization of Orchids", Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 4, 1869, pp. 141-159. The first French translation of Darwin's book on orchids was published in 1870.
Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$505.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1ST IMPRESSION OF THE SECOND EDITION - REVISED FROM THE ORIGINAL 1862 PUBLICATION - NICELY BOUND : A very nice copy, in full dark brown leather, in excellent order, only very light rubbing at extremities { see images },light foxing to early pages, marginal to t.p, thereafter not seen. Tightly and squarely bound. Handsome volume. Note: First edition published under title: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects. Pp. xvi, adv to verso t.p., 300, to include Index : illusrations throughout. 19.6 cm.Includes bibliography pp.vii-x. Also includes footnotes. { Subject: Fertilization of plants. Orchids. Fertilization Reproduction Plant physiology. Orchids Angiospermae Botany. Parthenogenesis Reproduction Plant physiology. Pollination Reproduction Plant physiology. Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Darwinism. }
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: xvi, 300, 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Recased, with new endpapers. Housed in modern green morocco-backed clamshell case. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Scattered spotting. The second edition, revised and significantly enlarged from the first of 1862, of Darwin's first detailed demonstration of his theory of evolution through natural selection, analysing how complex ecological relationships resulted in the coevolution of orchids and insects. Freeman 801. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$877.01 + shipping
Description: Second Edition, revised. 8°. Schmutztitel, Titel, XVI, 300 S., 32 S. (Verlagsanz.). Mit 38 Holzstich-Ill. im Text. Grüner OLn.-Bd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Kapitale, Rücken u. Kanten etwas berieben. Schmutztitel mit gelöschtem Stempel. Ränder Minimal gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten. vgl. Freeman 800 - Zweite Auflage des erstmals 1862 erschienenen Werkes von Charles Darwin (1809-1882) zur Befruchtung von Orchideen durch Insekten und deren symbiotische Entwicklung. Gewicht in Gramm: 1000
Seller: Antiquariat Burgverlag, Wien, Austria
Price: US$913.14 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp.xvi + 300 + 32 pages of the books published by Murray.[ Catalogue January 1876 ].Illustrated with woodcuts. Second Edition Revised. Original green cloth Private Book written in ink on verso of the half title .Spine ends have been repaired. some rubbing to corners,some foxing to the last few pages of the catalogue.rubbing to the board joints at spine else a tight clean copy.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Price: US$1139.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the darkened spine. Red stamp of "North Devon bequeathed by H. H. Sharland" on two pages within the book. Small tear on the front free page and lightly split hinges of the boards. 300pp plus 32 pages of publishers list of works.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1216.82 + shipping
Description: pp.xvi, 300 with 38 text woodcuts, plus 32-page John Murray catalogue dated January 1876. 8vo. Short closed tear to two pages, o/w. contents very clean and in fine condition. Original green cloth in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy. Freeman 801. This book is the first of the volumes of supporting evidence [for natural selection], (Freeman). The first edition (Freeman 800) was published on May 15th 1862, selling up to 2,000 copies.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$1260.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition, revised. London: John Murray, 1877. Octavo (7 3/8" x 5", 188mm x 128mm). [Full collation available.] With 38 woodcuts in-text. Bound in the publisher's green blocked cloth. Spine gilt. Brown-coated end-papers. Partly decased, with the rear hinge intact. Wear to the extremities. First free end-paper and initial binder's blank joined laid in. Lightening to the edges of the end-papers. Very scattered mild foxing. Ownership signature of George Basalla on the half-title-page. Typed letter signed from Myron F. Brightfield on University of California, Berkeley Department of English letterhead to Basalla laid in. After Darwin (1809-1882) published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was particularly struck by criticism that his work lacked rigor -- that it was a book of broad strokes rather than the methodical work of a natural scientist. He had begun work on Orchids as early as 1838, but it was first published only in 1862, the first post-Origin monograph. Darwin wrote to his publisher John Murray: "I think this little volume will do good to the 'Origin', as it will show that I have worked hard at details" (24 September 1861). The particular details to which Darwin refers are the interactions ("crossing") of plants and animals as they develop and diverge and the role they played in the synergistic evolution of those species. Orchids presented themselves as a particularly good way of working out this synergy because their physiologies were so various and so particular. Darwin built on the work of C.K. Sprengel and others who had begun to investigate orchids' particular methods of fertilization, but in view of the Origin he was able to apply to the interactive evolutions with much greater effect. The second edition contains new material from an 1869 paper, and has a slightly different title. George Basalla is professor emeritus of the history of science at the University of Delaware. He has published widely on the subject, including a good deal of work on Darwin in particular. His 1989 Evolution of Technology (Cambridge UP) applies Darwinian theory to the technology era. The letter from Myron J. Brightfield (for many decades professor English at Berkeley) discusses orchids, presumably based on a request from Basalla for references to them in Victorian novels, on which Brightfield was an expert, eventually publishing (posthumously) the four-volume Victorian England in its novels. Freeman 801.
Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.