Set Reminder2024-02-15 12:00:002024-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-part-ii-including-the-collections-of-robert-hess-and-roy-pilot-21913 We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe.
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[DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930), his copy]. MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829-1914). Hephzibah Guinness; Three and You; and A Draft on the Bank of Spain. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1887.8vo. Original gilt-lettered brick orange cloth (light rubbing to extremities).Second edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CONAN DOYLE ?with thanks for many pleasant hours?. Before becoming a writer, Conan Doyle trained as an ophthalmologist where he learned about chemicals, poisons, observation, deductive reasoning, and analysis which found its way into his many Sherlock Holmes novels. Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, often cited as the father of medical neurology, was president of the American Neurological Society and the author of numerous books with psychiatric themes.