Darwin, Charles ; Francis Darwin (Ed.)

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (2 volumes). 1893

London: John Murray, 1893. Ed. Francis Darwin. Volumes I and II (complete), original cloth boards with gilt to spine and blindstamped rule to boards, pp xiv, 473; x, 495, plus 32 pp later publisher's ads. Second edition revised, eighth thousand. School presentation plate front endpaper both volumes, school's blindstamp corner of preminary pages, otherwise clean. Corners gently rubbed. Very good condition.

Darwin's discussion of the mechanisms of variation. Significantly, it includes in chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he here called pangenesis. Item #104581

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