Name: Auction: Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 550 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, tenth thousand, 8vo, original green sand-grain cloth, xxiii [1] 596 pp., half-title, folding lithographic plate, 32 pp. advertisements dated 1868, ownership inscriptions 'Fred. J. Warner, Winchester 1870' and 'W. T. Sharp' to front free endpaper and half-title respectively, occasional pencilled marginalia, cloth rubbed, loss to head of spine, front joint cracked, tips bumped and worn, inner hinges strengthened, spotting to half-title, plate and advertisements [Freeman F436]

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Darwin, Charles

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Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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