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Auction description: "DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Autograph manuscript leaf, numbered '22', from an early draft of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, headed 'Chapter 1' and beginning 'It has, I think, now been shown that man agrees with the higher animals, especially the Primates, in having some few instincts in common...', n.d. [1867 - 1869], 20 lines including 10 cancellations and 5 insertions, on blue paper, one page, folio (tear at centre fold from right margin), tipped on to a leaf, with a cut signature...The Property of the late Lord Wraxall Removed from Tyntesfield, Somerset...Provenance: from the autograph collection of Matilda Blanche Gibbs (d.1887), wife of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield; and by descent." Christie's 20 November 2002, Lot 94. |
