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Price: US$484.85 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). xv, 519pp. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Spine faded. Prize label to paste-down
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: pp. xv, (i) blank, 519, (i) blank. A few un-numbered text figures. Library binding, ex-libris WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON, labels on the front end-papers, ms. call numbers and stamp on title, occasional marginal stamps elsewhere, one leaf torn and repaired without loss, marginal wear marks, a well-read copy and offered in working condition. *FREEMAN #20 where he states that this is the final, definitive text, with the prelims. reset and a Postscript on p.vii.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tenth Thousand. xv, 519 pages, text illustrations. Ex-General Assemby Library New Zealand with a gilt crest on the front cover and spine. Full leather binding, front hinge cracked, gutter reinforced with Japanese tissue paper. The final definitive text of Darwin’s first book with a Postscript dated Feb. 1st, 1860.
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Murray, London, 1860 Second edition 10th thousand, final definitive text with Postscript to vii and issued without advertisements. Original green cloth, backstrip very slightly darkened, slight bumping to head of spine and corners and a few small stains and light rubbing to covers, but overall a bright and square copy. Internally much cleaner than is often the case with this work, free from foxing and staining, a few leaves unopened.Provenance armorial bookplate of John Ward to front pastedown.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in full green calf with raised bands on the spine, red leather label with "Darwin's Journal" in gilt, five remaining compartments gilt decorated borders and floral emblems,gilt ruled borders to both boards. Gilt armorial of "The Royal Naval School" on the front board.xv[xvi] 519 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text,5 X 7.6 inches. Externally rubbed to edges spine ends and corners, leather worn at corners which are a little stubbed. Sound and solid binding, inside the hinges are firm and intact with no splitting along the endpapers.There is a Royal Naval School presentation label on the front pastedwon.Light scuffing to the leather.A few marks to the endpapers. Occasional spotting to first and last leaves, otherwise the pages are all quite clean throughout.
Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1147.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tenth Thousand, published by John Murray in 1860. Original green cloth covers, blind stamped design to front and back, gilt lettering and decoration to spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed with some chipping and loss, general wear and marks to the covers, bumping to the edges. Light brown endpapers, pastedown has a Norwich and Norfolk Naturalists Society bookplate, the free endpaper has previous owners names in ink, including J H Gurney, who was a politician and amateur ornithologist, who published several articles in The Zoologist, including an article titled "An Account of The Birds of Norfolk". There is another name and gift inscription below this, plus another, W E (or B?) Robinson, to the title page. Pages a little age toned, with occasional small marks, some rare spots. Good condition. xv + 519 pages + 32 pages of Mr Murray's general list of works dated April 1861.
Seller: Bushido Books, Guildford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Description: , Naturalist's Voyage Round the World to spine, xv, [1], 519 pages, occasional engraving in text, armorial bookplate of John Francis Basset to upper pastedown, final definitive text with Postcript to vii and issued without advertisements (reference The Works of Charles Darwin by R B Freeman, page 40, number 20) New Edition (Tenth Thousand) , slight rubbing to covers and spine edges, bumping to corners, splits to hinges, foxing to first and last few leaves, in good condition , green cloth, blindstamped decoration and rules to boards, gilt titles rules and decoration to spine, brown endpapers octavo, 20.5 x 13.5 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Description: The first issue of the second, definitive, edition of Darwin's first published book. Tenth Thousand. Crown 8vo. Original green cloth with blind-stamped ornamental design to front and rear panels. Lettered, ruled, and with ornaments in gilt to the spine. 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements dated "December, 1861" bound in at the rear (Freeman notes that the inserted adverts in this edition "may be as late as September 1868"). Illustrated with 11 black and white wood engravings and diagrams throughout the text. All edges untrimmed. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with minor abrasion, rubbing, and some nicking to spine tips and mild fraying to the outer hinges, the lower portions of the gilt ruling a little worn. Front inner hinge partially cracked, but holding. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a faded ink signature to the front endpaper, small square of adhesive residue (c. 2 x 2.5 cm) visible to the lower edge of the rear pastedown (due to removal of the original binder's label) are otherwise clean with just a little light spotting to prelims and final leaves. Charles Darwin's first published book, now universally known as 'The Voyage of the Beagle', but not issued with that title until 1905, is, as Richard Freeman notes in his bibliography of the author, "undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to 'On the Origin of Species' as the most often printed". Darwin's account of his travels aboard HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 has an appropriately circuitous bibliographical history. It was first issued as the third volume (of three) of 'The narrative of the voyages of H. M. Ships Adventure and Beagle' (1839), edited by Robert Fitzroy, Captain of the Beagle; Darwin's volume, simply titled 'Journal and remarks, 1832-1836' was also reissued alone the same year. A second edition followed in 1845, as 'Journal or researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the world [.]'), but it is this 1860 edition, described by Freeman as the "Final definitive text", that became the template for the countless editions that followed. Darwin provided new preliminaries and a postscript (dated Feb. 1st, 1860) outlining changes and corrections made to the text. The work itself, a groundbreaking fusion of travel narrative and scientific fieldwork is, as Freeman notes,"an important travel book in its own right" as well as its significance "[in] relation to the background of [Darwin's] evolutionary ideas". The green cloth binding for the 1860 edition is notable for being identical to that of the first three editions of 'On the Origin of Species'. (Freeman 20). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$2056.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: tenth thousand. xv,519pp. + 32pp. catalog (dated January 1863)pp. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Blind stamped decoration to boards. Brown endpapers with bookbinders sticker (Edmonds & Remnant) on rear pastedown. Slight soiling to endpapers with subtle previous owners name to ffep. Cloth in good state. Boards show light bumping to corners and bow inwards slightly. 13 engravings in text. Slight foxing to preliminaries though generally text block is clean, bright and tight. A very nice copy. very good Freeman 20. Final definitive text with new preliminaries and a postscript on p. VII. First printing to be bound in the same style as the three editions of 'The Origin of the Species'. "The page height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance".
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$2117.50 + shipping
Description: Second edition, tenth thousand; 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm); in-text illustrations, 32pp. of publisher's ads. to rear; publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt spine, extremities rubbed, occasional spotting, internal front hinge split but holding; xv, 519, [1], 32[ads.]pp. The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, including a new postscript dated 1st February 1860 bringing the work up to date. Better known today as The Voyage of the Beagle, it 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). Freeman 20.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2405.01 + shipping
Description: The final definitive text of Darwin's first published book, the second edition of his outstanding account of natural history exploration. This botanical and zoological travelogue describes the fieldwork that ultimately led to the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859). "His first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed" (Freeman). Darwin noted in his autobiography that "the voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career. As far as I can judge of myself I worked to the utmost during the voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation, and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in natural science. But I was also ambitious to take a fair place among scientific men. The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any other books.". This copy has been bound without the half-title. Freeman 20. Octavo (190 x 120 mm). Near-contemporary green half calf, spine and raised bands decorated in gilt, black morocco label lettered in gilt, green cloth sides, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers, blue silk bookmarker. Bookplate of one J. I. Burhill to front pastedown with their ownership inscription to front free endpaper, which has been superseded by a pasted-down ownership inscription of one G. E. Marks of Carmarthen. Extremities rubbed, touch of wear to corners, small mark to rear board, top edge toned, foxing to preliminary and end matter, otherwise contents bright and clean, a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, 519, 32 p. 21 cm. 11 b&w wood engravings and diagrams within text. Green cloth hardcover with blank impressing. Spine ends repaired. Corners bumped. Dents in tops of boards. Bookplate, ink signature, and small label on front pastedown and ink notation on rear. Hinges repaired internally. Initials across from title page and ink mark on margin of xiv. Darwin's first published book is also his most read and stands second only to "The Origin of Species" as the most printed. Usually referred to today as the "Voyage of the Beagle" it makes for interesting reading as a travel book as well as a scientifc text. Darwin actually spent as little time as possible on board the Beagle; he was miserably sea-sick and preferred extensive expeditions on land. Those excursions allowed him to describe the "savages" of South America, the Great Tortoises of the Galapagos, Australian convicts, and the cruelties of slavery. This printing is the final definitive text with the first appearance of the Postscript on p. vii dated February 1, 1860, in which Darwin corrects a few errors. This is also the first publishing in the green cloth binding in the same style as the first three John Murray editions of "On the Origin of Species." 32 pages of publisher's advertising at rear dated January 1860 show the variety of Murray's published works. Freeman 20. First printing of second edition. Tenth Thousand.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
DARWIN, Charles. Journal of researches. John Murray, London, 1860.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: With 14 text woodcuts. Original publisher's cloth, front cover a bit worn; interior very good. Third edition, 1st printing, 10th Thousand.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.