Darwin, Charles

i) The Power of Movement in Plants... assisted by Francis Darwin. John Murray, 1880, FIRST EDITION, 32pp. advertisements at end dated May 1878, presentation slip from Arnold Muirhead loosely inserted, A GOOD COPY; ii) another copy. 1880, second thousand, 32pp. advertisements at end dated January 1882, crease in upper cover, together 2 vols, both with half-titles, illustrations, original cloth, unopened, 8vo

Freeman 1325, 1326

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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"This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanisms hold 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" (Freeman, p.161).