Insectivorous Plants

Ex-library, with white-out over oval rubber stamp on title page, "B11" in ink on title page. "DARWIN" in white lettering at tail of spine. Abrasion to front free endpaper. No other library markings. Horizontal 25mm tear to cloth along top edge of spine. Fading to cloth. Scattered foxing to spine cloth. Split to gutter at rear hinge with spine mull visible. Some foxing. Some adhesive tape stains and abrasions to blank outer margins of pages 8 and 9.; "Cheap Edition" July, 1908. xiv, 377, [1], [4 (advertisements)] pages. Illustrated with 30 in-text figures. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, dark green lettering and decoration to front board, dark green double border to rear board. Page dimensions: 196 x 127mm. The "Preface to the Second Edition" by Francis Darwin is dated July, 1888. Pages xiii-xiv are a "List of the Chief Additions to the Second Edition". Contents: Drosera rotundifolia, or the Common Sun-Dew; The Movements of the Tentacles from the Contact of Solid Bodies; Aggregation of the Protoplasm within the Cells of the Tentacles; The Effects of Heat on the Leaves; The Effects of Non-Nitrogenous and Nitrogenous Organic Fluids on the Leaves; The Digestive Power of the Secretion of Drosera; The Effects of Salts of Ammonia; The Effects of Various Other Salts, and Acids, on the Leaves; The Effects of Certain Alkaloid Poisons, Other Substances and Vapours; On the Sensitiveness of the Leaves, and on the Lines of Transmission of the Motor Impulse; Recapitulation of the Chief Observations on Drosera rotundifolia; On the Structure and Movements of Some Other Species of Drosera; Dionaea muscipula; Aldrcanda vesiculosa; Drosophyllum - Rorodula - Byblis - Glandular Hairs of Other Plants - Concluding Remarks on the Droseraceae; Pinguicula; Utricularia; Uricularia (continued). [Reference: Freeman 1233 - "leaf green cloth".]; 8vo.…