A COLLECTION of rare books including a copy of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species comes under the hammer in Dorchester next week.
The sale at Duke’s of Dorchester is thought to be the largest book auction outside of London for many years and features the sale of two major collections.
The Newton library was started by Sir Henry Newton in 1920 and continued by his family until 2000. Guy Schwinge of Duke’s said: “He was lucky to be buying at a time when supply of rare books was abundant, and he recorded many of his most important purchases in a book of letters to his son.
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