New York auction house Sotheby’s will auction an “extremely rare” manuscript by Charles Darwin from November 25. The transcript is an excerpt from Darwin’s 1859 major work “On the Origin of Species,” which is considered the decisive cornerstone for contemporary evolutionary biology, as Sotheby’s Sunday (local time) announced.
Six years after publication, in 1865, editor Hermann Kindt asked the British naturalist for a handwritten text sample for his “Autographic Mirror” publication. Darwin then provided him with the manuscript, now on display at Sotheby’s, complete with his signature.
According to the auction house, it is the most important Darwin document of its kind to ever go under the hammer. Because the researcher has regularly revised his notes, discarded notes, and reused pages, there are few such handwritten texts. According to Sotheby’s, the auction could fetch between 600,000 and 800,000 francs. (sda/dpa)
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