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The Portraits, Prints and Writings of Charles Robert Darwin. Exhibited at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1909.

Name: The Portraits, Prints and Writings of Charles Robert Darwin. Exhibited at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1909.
Author: Darwin Centenary.

Book Description

First edition. Square 8vo. pp. [vii], 47; very good in original printed wrappers, a little browned.

Dealer Notes

A catalogue of the exhibition held during the Darwin Centenary of 1909. The list of 257 items includes portraits, photographs, medals, manuscripts, letters, Darwin’s scientific instruments, and such curios as “Monkey said to have been let down in the Senate House when Darwin was given the Honorary Degree of Ll.D. in 1877”.

Author Darwin Centenary.

Date [1909]

Binding Original printed wrappers

Publisher [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press]

Condition See description

Pages [vii], 47

Price: £125.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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