THE POWER OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS. by Darwin, Charles. Assisted by Francis Darwin - 1882

London: John Murray, 1882. x, 592 pp, (no publisher's advertisements), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Circumnutating Movements of Seedling Plants; General Considerations of the Movements and Growth of Seedling Plants; Sensitiveness of the Apex of the Radicle to Contact and other Irritants; The Circumnutating Movements of the several parts of Mature Plants; Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements; Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons; Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves; Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Light; Sensitiveness of Plants to Light: its transmitted effects: Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Gravitation; Localised Sensitiveness to Gravitation, and its Transmitted Effects; Summary and Concluding Remarks; Index. A few scattered tiny foxing marks on verso of free endpapers and on adjacent pages, some gilt lettering and decorarion on the spine has faded slightly (not on spine label), some tiny edge chips on spine label, darkening to top of text block, light to moderate edge wear to boards/corners, small areas of flaking to leather on hinges, red leather on spine and somewhat at corners has faded to light brown.. Third Thousand.. Half-Leather. Very Good -.