Lot 170
Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle..., 3 vol. in 4 including Appendix to vol. 2, first edition, Henry Colburn, 1839.
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Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle..., 3 vol. in 4 including Appendix to vol. 2, first edition, 9 folding engraved maps by J. Gardner and J. & C. Walker, all linen-backed and bound in, 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy and others, lacking half-titles and vol. 3 title, without advertisements at end of Appendix, vol. 1 frontispiece very small mark within image and working loose at foot, vol. 1 p.xv repaired tears affecting few words, occasional short tears to map edges or folds with fractional loss, few plates with minor spotting or light marginal staining, plates with some light browning and offsetting, some surface soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, pencil shelfmarks and ink-stamp to titles, ink-stamp(s) to maps and plates, modern blue half morocco, [Freeman 10; Hill 607; Norman 584; Sabin 37826], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1839.
*** Darwin's first published work and his most-widely read, the account of the voyage that would lead to his publishing On the Origin of Species. The first volume contains Capt. Philip Parker King's account of the expedition in the Adventure, which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second (and its Appendix) describes the Beagle's second voyage under Capt. Fitzroy to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science...The experiences of his five years... and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought” (DSB).
Description
Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle..., 3 vol. in 4 including Appendix to vol. 2, first edition, 9 folding engraved maps by J. Gardner and J. & C. Walker, all linen-backed and bound in, 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy and others, lacking half-titles and vol. 3 title, without advertisements at end of Appendix, vol. 1 frontispiece very small mark within image and working loose at foot, vol. 1 p.xv repaired tears affecting few words, occasional short tears to map edges or folds with fractional loss, few plates with minor spotting or light marginal staining, plates with some light browning and offsetting, some surface soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, pencil shelfmarks and ink-stamp to titles, ink-stamp(s) to maps and plates, modern blue half morocco, [Freeman 10; Hill 607; Norman 584; Sabin 37826], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1839.
*** Darwin's first published work and his most-widely read, the account of the voyage that would lead to his publishing On the Origin of Species. The first volume contains Capt. Philip Parker King's account of the expedition in the Adventure, which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second (and its Appendix) describes the Beagle's second voyage under Capt. Fitzroy to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science...The experiences of his five years... and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought” (DSB).