The Primrose and Darwinism. First Edition.

Author: Naturalist, A Field   

Publisher: London: Richards 1902.

Description: xiii, 233p including many diagrams, original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt vignette of two primroses (one thrum, the other pin) to cover and gilt title to spine, very well preserved, hinges cracked in places but holding very solidly, aged library label of the Cambridge Union Society to pastedown and pin-hole stamp to title, acquisition stamp dated Oct 21st, 1902 to final leaf, fascinating turn-of-the-century rebuttal which " many reviewers hailed as totally destructive of Darwin's theory of the fertilisation of the primrose" (E A Bunyard in Nature, 1904).

Order No: PIP 138642

Language: English

Price: £35.00

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