Vincent charles w editor (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, title page dated 1876. Clean and tightly bound with embossed and gilded imagery on the spine and the cover. Light shelf wear at spine ends and small spot on the fore edge. The frontispiece shows Darwin's illustration of insectivorous plants. The contents show light wear and several scuffs on the rear endpapers, still very good. This copy is from a 19th Century private lending institution, the Mercantile Library of New York City. There are no external indications of the library's ownership. A handwritten number and Mercantile Library stamp are on the title page and some of the internal pages. A nice copy.…