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Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. Longman, Green [&c.], 1865
- Paper
8vo, first printing, first commercial offprint, with 13 woodcut illustrations, original buff wrappers, folding collector's box, spine cracked with some losses, ink inscription and underlining on upper wrapper
Literature
Freeman 834
Catalogue Note
The first printing of Darwin's monograph took three forms: a double number of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, and two offprints, one for commercial sale (as here) and one for the author. Copies of either offprint, particularly in original wrappers, are rarely seen at auction.
This lot is being sold by the Charles Darwin Trust to fund the gift of Quentin Keynes’ remaining collection of importan🍎t Darwin and Wallace books and manuscripts to the Linnean ꧂Society, for use in their educational programmes.