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Darwin, Charles, King, Parker P. Captain, Fitz-Roy, Robert, Captain

NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE Between the Years 1826 and 1836 , Describing Their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America , and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe

Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, 1839

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Year of publication
1839
Place of printing
London
Author
Darwin, Charles, King, Parker P. Captain, Fitz-Roy, Robert, Captain
Publishers
Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
Available Inventory Seafaring
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
First edition
Yes

Description

Boards with light rubbing to extremities but in lovely shape for its age ; 3 volume set and appendix in separate book. Vol. I: Proceedings of the first expedition, 1826 - 1830, under the command of Captain P. Parker King. Vol. II: Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831 - 1836, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, Vol. III: Journal and Remarks. 1832 - 1836, by Charles Darwin, Appendix to the second volume in separate book. - Original dark green boards with blindstamped decoration. Maps in front pockets of each volume. This is the official account of the most famous nineteenth century naval exploring expedition, of which Darwin's contribution amounts to the entire third volume of the work. This third volume is here in its very first issue and includes all Darwin's observations made during the expedition. Darwin's volume is twenty years before he published one of the most influential books ever written, "Origin of Species"; 8vo; xxiii, 597; xiv, 694; xiv, 615; 352, 16 pages
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