FIRST RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF 'INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS'

DARWIN, CHARLES.

Nasekomoyadnye rasteniya [i.e. Russian: "Insectivorous Plants"], [3 issues, all].

Moscow, izdanie V. P. Plemânnikova, 1876.

8vo. 3 parts bound in 2 uniform contemporary full cloth bindings with blind stamped titles to spines. Some soiling to extremities and part of cloth around hinges worn of. Internally with occassional brownspotting. (4), 168, (2), 393, (1), VII, (2) pp. + 4 folded plates. 


Rare first Russian translation of Darwin’s Insectivorous Plants published only one year after the English original.

Freeman F1244
OCLC only locates one copy (in Poland), Huntinton in Pasadena also holds a copy. 

Order-nr.: 60588

DKK 22.500,00