Two Titles by Charles Darwin, First Editions

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877, first American edition in publishers red cloth with gilt particulars to spine, lacking errata, viii, 482, 8, [iv]; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, in two volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, first edition, first printing in green publisher's cloth with gilt particulars to spines, vol. II lacking errata, viii, 411, 32; viii, 486, [ii], 8vo, 9 x 4-7/8 x 5-3/4 in.

Provenance: Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia