£1,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: John Murray, 1876-91. 6 works, all 8vo, original green cloth, light spotting to outer leaves, titles comprising:
A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology, 1889, engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket, front inner hinge partly cracked [Freeman 21];
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, first edition, fifth thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown [Freeman 226];
Insectivorous Plants. 1876, first edition, fourth thousand, errata slip, largely unopened, [Freeman 293];
The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. Second edition, 1878, 32 pp. advertisements, partly unopened, head of spine and front cover smoke-damaged [Freeman 298];
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, 1881. First edition, fifth thousand (corrected), contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to initial blank [Freeman 321];
The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880. First edition, second thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, contemporary bookplate (George Evelyn Cower), cloth slightly marked [Freeman 312] (6)