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SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE MRS A.P. KEYNES
Darwin, Charles
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS
proposing that when a sensation or emotion has led "during a long series of generations to any voluntary action, then that the same or any analogous or associated sensations &c, although very weak, will almost inevitably give some tendency to the performance of similar movements", unnumbered fragment, torn at top from a larger leaf, 44 words on 6 lines, with unrelated mathematical calculations in black ink and pencil by George Darwin on the verso, blue wove paper, 1 page, oblong slip (c.102 x 202mm), torn at the head and cut at the foot, 1872, paper discoloured in spots
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25,000
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35,000
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