Lot 259
DARWIN, Bernard
Auction: 12 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£5,875
Description
The Golf Courses of the British Isles... 1st edition, illustrated with sixty four colour plates from paintings by Harry Rountree, original gilt decorated green cloth, original grey cloth dust jacket, t.e.g., Duckworth, London, 1910
Footnote
Darwin's famous book covering the courses of Scotland, England and Ireland. Murdoch notes that "The illustrations, from original water colors, help to make this one of the fine books in the golf library, setting a high standard of excellence that Mr. Darwin would never fail to meet in his later books." Donovan & Murdoch