DARWIN, Charles.

Journal of Researches

Name: Journal of Researches
Brand: DARWIN, Charles.
SKU: 123175
Price: 150.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

into the Natural History & Geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.

Stock Code 123175

London, John Murray, 1897.

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admiralty prize copy

Reissue, originally published in 1839. Prize copy presented by the Lords of the Admiralty, with bookplate and presentation stamp, to Major Henry James Jones, O.B.E., R.A.O.C. who served in the Navy as an Engineer rising to be Chief Inspector of of Ordnance Machinery and was at one time technical adviser to the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control for Austria.

Journal of Researches, the definitive text of Darwin's first published book (The Voyage of the Beagle, vol. III of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle) is 'undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed' of Darwin's works, and is an 'important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed' (Freeman).

Reissue; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); portrait frontispiece and several in-text illustrations, prize bookplate to front endpaper signed by an Admiral, discreet stamp of the Lords of the Admiralty to verso of title; contemporary half calf, cloth boards, gilt spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges speckled red, touch of rubbing, a very good copy; xi, 500 pp.

Freeman 125.

Provenance

Provenance: Major Henry James Jones, O.B.E., R.A.O.C. (bookplate); Lords of the Admiralty (bookplate and stamp).

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