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The Power of Movement in Plants
de DARWIN, Charles
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FIRST ISSUE IN A HANDSOME BINDING
first edition, first issue 8vo. [2 (half-title & advt.)], x, 592pp., 196 figures on text leaves, handsome modern contemporary-style half light tan calf, spine panelled by gilt-rolled raised bands, large blind tool at panel centres, red morocco label gilt, old marbled paper on sides, top edge gilt, trivial old water stain at the extreme foot of the first few leaves. A nice copy.
Freeman Darwin Bibliography 1325. First issue with 2 lines of errata on page x.
"This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanism holds good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other, and was not reprinted in England after the year of Darwin's death until modern facsimiles appeared of the first thousand in 1966 and the second in 1969.The first edition was published on November 6, 1880, and it is recorded that 1500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. It was in a standard [green cloth] binding and cost 15s. ... In this issue there are two lines of errata on page x which are corrected in the second thousand of the same year. ... In the third thousand of 1882, the last Murray printing, the preface is slightly altered" [Freeman, p.161].
This work follows up on his earlier On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1865) and was based on experiments that he conducted with the assistance of his son Francis Darwin. On p.569-70 he suggests natural selection as a possible explanation for plants' ability to bend towards or away from environmental stimuli.
first edition, first issue 8vo. [2 (half-title & advt.)], x, 592pp., 196 figures on text leaves, handsome modern contemporary-style half light tan calf, spine panelled by gilt-rolled raised bands, large blind tool at panel centres, red morocco label gilt, old marbled paper on sides, top edge gilt, trivial old water stain at the extreme foot of the first few leaves. A nice copy.
Freeman Darwin Bibliography 1325. First issue with 2 lines of errata on page x.
"This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanism holds good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other, and was not reprinted in England after the year of Darwin's death until modern facsimiles appeared of the first thousand in 1966 and the second in 1969.The first edition was published on November 6, 1880, and it is recorded that 1500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. It was in a standard [green cloth] binding and cost 15s. ... In this issue there are two lines of errata on page x which are corrected in the second thousand of the same year. ... In the third thousand of 1882, the last Murray printing, the preface is slightly altered" [Freeman, p.161].
This work follows up on his earlier On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1865) and was based on experiments that he conducted with the assistance of his son Francis Darwin. On p.569-70 he suggests natural selection as a possible explanation for plants' ability to bend towards or away from environmental stimuli.
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- Título
- The Power of Movement in Plants
- Autor
- DARWIN, Charles
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- Half calf
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- First
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- John Murray
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- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1880
- Tamaño
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- Palabras clave
- science natural botany evolution
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