| Description: |
From the auction description: "Darwin's sheets of the third edition with autograph revisions, sent to his German translator for incorporation into the second German edition. The majority of Darwin's revisions were then incorporated into the fourth English and all subsequent editions, thereby remaining Darwin's definitive text. ...They were bound up (the binder's knife shaving a few notes) and at some point soon afterwards came to be owned by Darwin's younger contemporary and correspondent, the German palaeontologist, Melchior Neumayr. ...(c.36 autograph revisions in pencil and ink and underlining and markings in pencil on c. 202 pages [see below], sent to:) – Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800-1862; for his second translation into German of the Origin) – [Melchior Neumayr (1845-1890; by descent)]."
Christie's 13 Dec 2017, £788,750. |
