DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 . London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8 o . 2 folding engraved maps, 4 wood-engraved illustrations. (Both maps with some browning and with short tears at inner margin, some offsetting from maps onto text, occasional spotting and marginal soiling.) Original blue cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut (rebacked preserving original spine, some rubbing). Provenance : H. Cameron (signature dated 1840 on front free endpaper FIRST EDITION, second issue (i.e. first separate edition) of Darwin's first published book. According to Freeman, it is the one most often read, which "stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed." The first issue forms the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle , edited by Captain Robert Fitzroy and published in 3 volumes with an appendix to volume II in 1839. The second issue was the first appearance of the work in its own right. It was written up from Darwin's manuscript diary and the small notebooks forming the memoranda on which the diary itself was based. Freeman 11.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 . London: Henry Colburn, 1839.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 . London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8 o . 2 folding engraved maps, 4 wood-engraved illustrations. (Both maps with some browning and with short tears at inner margin, some offsetting from maps onto text, occasional spotting and marginal soiling.) Original blue cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut (rebacked preserving original spine, some rubbing). Provenance : H. Cameron (signature dated 1840 on front free endpaper FIRST EDITION, second issue (i.e. first separate edition) of Darwin's first published book. According to Freeman, it is the one most often read, which "stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed." The first issue forms the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle , edited by Captain Robert Fitzroy and published in 3 volumes with an appendix to volume II in 1839. The second issue was the first appearance of the work in its own right. It was written up from Darwin's manuscript diary and the small notebooks forming the memoranda on which the diary itself was based. Freeman 11.
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