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Price: US$141.09 + shipping
Description: pp.xi, 500. 8vo. Hardback. One crossed through signature on half-title. Original boards. A vg. copy. Freeman 58.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$147.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, new edition, pp,xi,500, tissue guarded portrait frontispiece, some illustrations in text, gilt titled pictorial green cloth, uncut, some mild foxing.
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book condition: Good. Green cloth boards with gold gilt. Goucho chasing emu illustration in gold gilt on front. Good and bright. Slight bubble to rear board and some minor scuffs to front and rear. Outer edges of pages are greyed but inside generally clean with virtually no sign of foxing. Front end tissue paper protecting author's portrait has almost detached and a bit tatty. Otherwise, good copy.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. New Edition with portrait of Darwin and tissue guard. Marbled endpapers. 500 pages. All edges gilt. Bound in dark blue calf with gilt crest to front cover (Docendum et Discendum), gilt title on red to spine with raised bands. Edges and corners are rubbed and worn, top and bottom of spine also slightly worn and some loss of binding along spine edge on back cover, otherwise a very nice copy.
Seller: Lilian Modlock, Gillingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Description: 8vo. (xii), 500 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to spine and with gilt vignette to upper board, two later owners' names ink stamped to the front free endpaper, one repeated on the half title. Frontispiece portrait. Light wear to the head of the spine, else a decent copy. "It is impossible to overrate the influence of the voyage on Darwin's career: it was both his education and his opportunity.He left England untried and almost uneducated for science, he returned a successful collector, a practised and brilliant geologist, and with a wide general knowledge of zoology gained at first hand in many parts of the world" (DNB). The lessons learnt and specimens taken around the world led directly to "The Origin of Species" 20 years later. Freeman, 58.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: Full original purple cloth boards. Upper with blind rules, stamp, and lettering, title gilt-stamped in center. Publisher?s stamp in blind on lower. Spine with gilt lettering, stamp, and blind rules. Bevelled edges. Brown paste-in and free endpapers., A fine example of this journal written about Darwin?s five-year voyage on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, the publication of which established him as both an eminent geologist and a popular author. ?Darwin's journal encompasses every observable detail of the animals, birds and plants he encountered on the five-year voyage. It includes minute descriptions and even sketches of the movements and habits of hitherto unfamiliar species. Accompanying the entries are his own conclusions, analyses and classificatory notes that demonstrate his skill and talent as a naturalist.? With frontispiece protected by tissue guard and a profusion of other plates, many double-page. Charles Robert Darwin (1809 ? 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist renown for his contributions to the understanding of evolutionary biology, and he has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the present volume first published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks, which quickly brought him considerable fame and respect. This was the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, the other volumes of which were written or edited by the commanders of the ships. Journal and Remarks covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it later in 1839 as Darwin's Journal of Researches, and the revised second edition published in 1845 used this title. In 1890 the publisher John Murray issued a new, illustrated edition of the Journal. , Size : 8vo.(202x136 mm), Blank (2). Half title. Blank (2). Frontispiece. Title. Blank. Preface (vii-x). Contents. Blank. P. 13-615. Blank. Slight toning, interior otherwise clean and crisp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada