Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

This fall, Freeman’s will present the Braydon C. Guild Collection of Charles Darwin, an exceptional assemblage of Darwiniana encompassing every title published by the naturalist. Among its highlights is a remarkably fine copy, preserved in its original wrappers, of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s historic joint announcement of the theory of natural selection. Leading the collection is an exceptionally bright first edition of On the Origin of Species, with distinguished provenance from the library of William Barton Rogers, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who reviewed Darwin’s landmark work. The auction will also feature an important selection of printed...