DARWIN, CHARLES.

Obrazovanie rastitel'nago sloa deatel'nost'u dozdevyh cervej i nabludenia nad obrazom zizni poslednih. [i.e. "Vegetable Mould and Worms"]. [Translated by:] Mihail Aleksandrovic Menzbir.

Moscow, S. P. Arkhipov. 1882. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities and small stamp to upper right corner of title-page, internally fine and clean. IV, 186 pp.

Second Russian translation, published the same year as the first Russian and the year after the original English, of Dawin's "Vegetable Mould and Worms".

"This last book is outside the main stream of Darwin's work, and reverts to his earlier geological interests. He had indeed published papers on mould in 1838 and in 1840. The book was remarkably successful, selling 6000 copies within a year, and 13000 before the end of the century". (Freeman).

Freeman 1409

Order-nr.: 53617