On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing, first edition, folding plate, illustrations, 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated December 1861, browned, bookplate of Jos Gavit on front pastedown, original gilt decorated blind-stamped cloth, slightly ribbed, recased, rebacked with the original spine laid down, edges uncut, modern slip-case, [Freeman 800], 8vo, 1862. "His first botanical book... . The orchids were well chosen to illustrate Darwin's insistence on the adaptive nature of floral morphology, and they also served to emphasize additional points made by Darwin in the Origin." - R. Ornduff, Darwin's Botany, Taxon, 1984.
On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing, first edition, folding plate, illustrations, 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated December 1861, browned, bookplate of Jos Gavit on front pastedown, original gilt decorated blind-stamped cloth, slightly ribbed, recased, rebacked with the original spine laid down, edges uncut, modern slip-case, [Freeman 800], 8vo, 1862. "His first botanical book... . The orchids were well chosen to illustrate Darwin's insistence on the adaptive nature of floral morphology, and they also served to emphasize additional points made by Darwin in the Origin." - R. Ornduff, Darwin's Botany, Taxon, 1984.
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