The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin – ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY LE 1994
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The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy RN 1832-1836 by Charles Darwin, Originally Published with the Approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury - ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY COMMEMORATIVE FACSIMILE LIMITED EDITION 1994
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No.833 of 1000 copies.
Signed by Dr. John Hemming, director and secretary, Royal Geographical Society.
4 volume commemorative facsimile edition of 1840 original.
82 full colour plates and 84 single colour plates (three fold-out) by John Gould et al.
Half bound in brown gilt blocked brown leather, grey marble printed boards.
Brown marble printed endpapers.
Green silk bookmark.
Wooden box with adjustable ratchet top.
Separate print folder.
Books 30x23cm.
590 pages in total.
£670 (£950 in 1994)
In December 1831 the HMS Beagle sailed from Plymouth and over the next five years before the ship returned Darwin spent most of the voyage on land exploring and describing the geology, flora and fauna of the places he visited. The voyage visited both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, crossed the Pacific via the Galapagos Is. Tahiti and New Zealand, visited Sydney and Tasmania, then crossed the Indian Ocean via Mauritius to Cape Town before returning to England via St.Helena Is., Ascension Is. and Brazil. This momentous voyage led eventually to Darwin’s grand opus, The Origin of Species.
These books were originally published in five unbound parts as they were finished between February 1838 and October 1843.
Print portfolio
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No.833 of 1000 copies.
Signed by Dr. John Hemming, director and secretary, Royal Geographical Society.
4 volume commemorative facsimile edition of 1840 original.
82 full colour plates and 84 single colour plates (three fold-out) by John Gould et al.
Half bound in brown gilt blocked brown leather, grey marble printed boards.
Brown marble printed endpapers.
Green silk bookmark.
Wooden box with adjustable ratchet top.
Separate print folder.
Books 30x23cm.
590 pages in total.
£670 (£950 in 1994)
In December 1831 the HMS Beagle sailed from Plymouth and over the next five years before the ship returned Darwin spent most of the voyage on land exploring and describing the geology, flora and fauna of the places he visited. The voyage visited both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, crossed the Pacific via the Galapagos Is. Tahiti and New Zealand, visited Sydney and Tasmania, then crossed the Indian Ocean via Mauritius to Cape Town before returning to England via St.Helena Is., Ascension Is. and Brazil. This momentous voyage led eventually to Darwin’s grand opus, The Origin of Species.
These books were originally published in five unbound parts as they were finished between February 1838 and October 1843.
Print portfolio
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
3njritchie
>1 wcarter: A trivial question for you: my green silk ribbons have shockingly leached their colour onto the pages that they lie between - have yours misbehaved similarly? The books appear to have hardly been opened, let alone read (excepting one volume where a double page foldout has been clumsily creased on refolding)!
4wcarter
>3 njritchie:
No, this has not happened in any of my volumes.
No, this has not happened in any of my volumes.
