Lot 240
Darwin, Charles
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
Description
The origin of species, 1872, sixth edition, folding plate, original cloth, upper hinge broken, slightly rubbed at head of spine; Hazlitt, William Lectures on the English comic writers, 1819, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Goethe, J.W. von Faustus, 1832, translated by P.B. Shelley, 4to, engraved frontispiece and 25 (of 26) plates by Retsch, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Burns, Robert Poems. Kilmarnock, 1783 [but c.1933], original wrappers, original box; Henderson, J. The West Indies, 1905, plates, original cloth, faded and slightly marked; Nichols, B. A book of old ballads, 1934, 4to, original cloth; Bell, H.J. Obeah, witchcraft in the West Indies, 1893, original cloth; Doughty, C.M. Travels in Arabia deserta, 1923, 2 volumes, folding map in pocket of volume 1, original cloth, spines slightly faded; Thackeray, W.M. The Virginians, 1858, 2 volumes, 8vo; The Newcomes, 1854, 2 volumes, 8vo, both with additional etched titles and plates, uniform contemporary half calf, some spotting; Simpson, G.G. Scottish handwriting 1150-1650, 1973, dust-jacket (14)