Hindman sets auction record for copy of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’

A record for a copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species came at Hindman’s sale of the library of a Midwestern collector in Chicago earlier this week.

Previously owned by American collector Paul Mellon (1907-99), the 1859 first edition of the seminal …

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