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de Vries, Hugo Marie (1848 - 1935)
DIE MUTATIONSTHEORIE. VERSUCHE UND BEOBACHTUNGEN ÜBER DIE ENTSTEHUNG VON ARTEN IM PFLANZENREICH. 1-2.
Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1901 - 1903.
23,5 cm. XII, 648; XIV, 752 pp. + 12 chromolithographed plates. 340 text illustrations.

Modern half cloth gilt, contrasting  gilt-lettered labels on spines. Library stamps on title-pages (withdrawn from the TechnischeUniversität, Dresden).

$ 800

First edition. Originally published in six parts. Includes extensive bibliographical references in the footnotes, bibliography (vol. 2, pp.714-7), and index. "The theory of mutation was first advanced by de Vries"(Garrison & Morton). "The results of his more than ten years of experimentation and study were laid down in de Vries's Die Mutationstheorie in which he described in detail his work on the segregation laws, on phenomena of variation, and on plant mutations [as the basis of evolution]. The book made him famous, and he was recognized as one of the foremost botanists of his time" (Peter W. van der Pas in D.S.B. 14, p. 96).

* Garrison & Morton 240. Norman 2169. Dibner 36. Sparrow 194. Dunn, A Short History of Genetics, pp. 55-61.

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