The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877, first American edition in publishers red cloth with gilt particulars to spine, lacking errata, viii, 482, 8, [iv]; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in two volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, first edition, first printing in green publisher's cloth with gilt particulars to spines, vol. II lacking errata, viii, 411, 32; viii, 486, [ii], 8vo, 9 x 4-7/8 x 5-3/4 in.
Provenance: Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia
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Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia
overall wear to extremities including scratching and discoloration, tears and losses to heads and tails of spines, corners bumped, bindings shaken, scattered foxing and toningļ¼ <em>Domestication</em> with losses/abrasions to front boards from removal of label and possibly some moisture damage, vol. I with boards and spine separated from text block, losses at bottom corners of pp. 13-16 not affecting text, moisture marks along fore edge of adverts at end not affecting text, vol. II with hole to spine
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