24th May, 2023 12:00

Fine Instruments of Science, Medicine and Books

 
Lot 144
 

Francis Darwin, Period Journals

comprising of

1 -

2 - The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, Vol.XXIV, London: Sold at the Society's Apartments and By Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, and Williams Norgate, 1888, Faux half calf, orange marbled boards, original papers to journal, text block untrimmed, text block split from front board, first edition of Francis Darwins paper:The effect of stimulation on turgescent vegetable tissues [p.1 - p.26]

3 - The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, Vol.XVII, London: Sold at the Society's Apartments and By Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, and Williams Norgate, 1881, Faux half calf, orange marbled boards, original papers to journal, text block untrimmed, first edition of Francis Darwins paper:Theory of the Growth of Cuttings ; illustrated by observations on the bramble, rubus fruticosus [p.406 - p.419] and, first edition of Francis Darwins paper: On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light [p.420 - p.455]

Estimated at £200 - £400

 

comprising of

1 -

2 - The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, Vol.XXIV, London: Sold at the Society's Apartments and By Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, and Williams Norgate, 1888, Faux half calf, orange marbled boards, original papers to journal, text block untrimmed, text block split from front board, first edition of Francis Darwins paper:The effect of stimulation on turgescent vegetable tissues [p.1 - p.26]

3 - The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, Vol.XVII, London: Sold at the Society's Apartments and By Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, and Williams Norgate, 1881, Faux half calf, orange marbled boards, original papers to journal, text block untrimmed, first edition of Francis Darwins paper:Theory of the Growth of Cuttings ; illustrated by observations on the bramble, rubus fruticosus [p.406 - p.419] and, first edition of Francis Darwins paper: On the power possessed by leaves of placing themselves at right angles to the direction of incident light [p.420 - p.455]

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