Kohler Collection of books and manuscripts by and about Charles Darwin

Item date: 18th & 19th century
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 985,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2006
Item institution: Natural History Museum, Library
Town/City: London

This comprehensive collection, assembled over 20 years, comprises 1,628 printed works by Darwin (including first English editions of all titles and many foreign language editions); c. 1,700 books on evolutionary theory, criticism and counter theories; and 152 letters by or to Darwin and others of his circle (including Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Lyell, Joseph Hooker, T H Huxley, Sir Richard Owen, William Buckland, W Murchison and Asa Gray).

Item Provenance
Chris and Michele Kohler