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Darwin, Charles.
The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.
Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London;
Date of Publication: 1878
Stock Code: 14399
Second Edition. Octavo, pp., viii, 487, 32 of publisher’s catalogue to end, 1 diagram and 109 tables within text. Publisher’s original green cloth, blind-stamped frame to boards, titled in gilt to spine. Top edge and fore-edges of select pages untrimmed. Elegant bookplate of All Nations Bible College, London, to front paste-down. Underlining to first page. Corners slightly rubbed, top edge a little dusty. A very good copy. The result of an offshoot of Darwin’s work on natural selection and evolution. The author performed experiments which demonstrated that plants which self-fertilized were weaker than those which cross-fertilized. £500.00