Darwin, Charles.

8vo, first edition, family presentation copy inscribed "From the Author" on front endpaper, the author's granddaughter, the artist Gwen Raverat's ownership signature beneath (dated 1928), folding wood-engraved plate and textual woodcuts, without advertisements,  original dark plum cloth decorated in blind and gilt, orchid design on upper cover, reddish-brown endpapers, some slight spotting, spine torn, endpaper torn, covers partially detached; [together with:] The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 1868, first edition, 2 volumes, illustrations, nineteenth-century half calf gilt, marbled boards; The Expression of Emotions in Men and Animals. 1914, popular edition, with the ownership signature of Darwin's granddaughter Gwen Raverat (dated 1914); The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species. 1880, second edition; The Descent of Man. 1901, with the ownership signature of Jacques Raverat, husband of Gwen; another copy; The Formation of Vegetable Mould. 1904; More Letters of Charles Darwin...edited by Francis Darwin... 1903, 2 volumes; and four volumes of works by Sir Francis Darwin; 8vo, original cloth bindings except where stated, wear to some bindings (15)

Fertilisation of Orchids: presentation copy from the author, inscription; the author's grandaughter Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), ownership signature; thence by descent
Other works: Jacques or Gwen Raverat, or other members of the Darwin family; thence by descent

 

Fertilisation of Orchids: Freeman 800
British and Foreign Orchids: Freeman 233

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Family presentation copy of the first edition of the first of Darwin's works to offer extensive evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection, togther with 14 other volumes.