Lecture Notes on the Natural History of Plants with Practical Work

Folio. Cloth-backed boards. Four illustrations drawn within the text in pencil; text printed only on the rectos. Original owner's inscription to the title page: "Joseph A. Daniel/Christ's College/Cambridge". Minor amount of wear to the edges of the boards. Ex-libris of Richard Freeman, bibliographer of Charles Darwin, initialed by him with notes of cost on ffep. An exceptionally rare item with fantastic provenance. COPAC lists three copies at Cambridge, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; no copies have come up at auction. It is unclear as to who has done the illustrations in this copy; the copy held at Cambridge has similar drawings, with some variations. Perhaps the illustrations were all done by hand by the authors, though this isn't explicitly stated anywhere in the book. There are references to Charles Darwin throughout this work, most notably on f.42 where a letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Hooker is quoted.