The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilised by Insects. Second Edition, revised. Fourth Thusand. NEAR FINE COPY WITH CORNWALLIS BOOKPLATE

8vo., Second Edition, Fourth Thousand, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original arches-style green cloth, boards with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, near fine copy. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis on front paste-down, and 32pp publisher's catalogue (November 1886) bound in at end. The second edition, first issued in 1877, truncates the title and omits the folding plate of the first edition but increases the number of woodcuts. Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (1864-1935), British Conservative politician; Chairman of Kent County Council; seat Linton Park in Kent. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 213 (but dated 1885 [bound 1886] rather than 1888).