Charles Darwin: 'The Power of Movement in Plants..., assiste...

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Charles Darwin: 'The Power of Movement in Plants..., assisted by Francis Darwin.', London, John Murray, 1880, 1st edition, 1st issue (with 2 lines of errata on p. x, which are corrected in the second issue of the same year), x,592pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue of adverts at end dated May 1878, original publisher's green cloth gilt. Darwin's penultimate book, prepared with the assistance of his son Francis, which continued his experiments with climbing plants, and also continued in producing evidence for his theory of natural selection; together with Henry Walter Bates: 'The Naturalist on the River Amazons', L, Murray, 1895, 7th edition, wood engraved frontis + full page and in text wood engraved illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt (2)