Christie’s expects volume,which shows the author refining his theory in light of new research, to fetch between £300000 and £500, and 000After eluding scholars for decades,a copy of On the Origin of Species with handwritten revisions by Charles Darwin has near to light and is due to be auctioned next month.
Christie’s has place an estimate of £300000 to £500000 on the annotated book, which it said will allow “for the first time a precise reading of Darwin’s exact revisions without the veil of reconstruction and translation … [it] provides an insight into his working method, and documents the further development of his ideas for his ‘big book’.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk