The Structure of Wheat Shown in a Series of Photo-Micrographs with Explanatory Remarks

London: For the Author by W Dunham, 1892. First Edition.. Full contemporary gilt stamped roan.. A very good copy; slight darkening to the sixth leaf.. 4to, 21 mounted 3 x 4 in. albumen prints of the microscopic structure of wheat.

A book containing some startling photo-micrographs to illustrate the life cycle of the plant (the illus. of the wheat flower fertilization is particularly striking). The book was privately published by Dunham and is made up of 26 thick card pages. Each leaf has printed text, and most a mounted albumen print within a printed litho. border. The text is straight forward and informative. The leaves are on cloth guards to facilitate page turning. An informative and often startling piece of scientific botany.