1876 1st ed Charles Darwin Movement & Habits Climbing Plants Botany Evolution

1876 1^st ed Charles Darwin Movement & Habits Climbing Plants Botany Evolution

 

“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

 

This book, ‘Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants,’ focusses primarily on his observation on climbing plants from Southern Brazil with focus on differences in grown and mechanisms of movement in twining plants. The illustrations were drawn by George Darwin, son of Charles Darwin.

 

Item number: #17409

Price: $750

 

DARWIN, Charles

 

The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants

 

London: John Murray., 1876. First edition. Second Thousand

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • viii, 208
  • Illustrated throughout
• References: Freeman 836
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – Ellis R. Brockman
  • Handwritten – Herbert Fryer
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)
• Rare and desirable

 

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