The Hand; its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as evincing Design
London : John Murray, 1854
post 8vo.,
cloth
, sixth edition
with port. and woodcuts
1
English
5s.
S011.6b; V14.15; C009.01/C039.06; J2008.876
I3
Library, shelving over bookcases facing door, shelf 6, item 02
Half title, front., illus. with woodcuts, 32pp. cata. (Jan. 1854). Uncut in orig. brown cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; expertly repaired at head and tail of spine. Bookplates of Charles Dickens, Sara R. Dunn & J.R. Ainslie, with Sotheran’s ‘from the Library of Charles Dickens’ label. Pencil note ‘C.D.B.’. v.g. in brown cloth fold-over box.
The Catalogue of Dickens’s Library, p.11, offers this at 5s. With autograph inscription: ‘To Charles Dickens Esq. With kind regards, from Marion Bell’. Marion was widow of Sir Charles Bell, specialist in the human nervous system, who had died in 1842.
The Catalogue of Dickens’s Library, p.11, offers this at 5s. With autograph inscription: ‘To Charles Dickens Esq. With kind regards, from Marion Bell’. Marion was widow of Sir Charles Bell, specialist in the human nervous system, who had died in 1842.
For sale by Jarndyce at £1,200 (Autumn 2008)