Lot 315
  • 315

Darwin, Charles--Burkhardt, F. and S. Smith et al., ed.

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 1 [-Volume 23]. Cambridge: University Press, 1985-2015
  • Burkhardt, Frederick
  • Printed Book
8vo, FIRST EDITIONS, 24 volumes (duplicate of volume 16), original cloth, dust-jackets, inscription in volume 15, occasional highlighting, extremities of some dust-jackets occasionally nicked

Literature

Grolier Club, Darwin (2004), p.32

Condition

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Catalogue Note

One of the great publishing ventures from Cambridge University Press described, simply, as "a monumental work" within Grolier Club Darwin (2004).