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DARWIN, Charles (edited by).. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: During the Years 1832-1836. Volume I (only, of 3): Part I Fossil Mammalia, by Richard Owen. Part II Mammalia, by George R. Waterhouse.. Wellington, New Zealand, Nova Pacifica 1980., 1980.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: First edition thus. A facsimile and limited edition, of 750 copies, this being copy #143. Hardcover. Thick quarto. Bound in quarter blue leather, spine lettered in gilt on salmon-coloured panels, front and back panels bound in salmon cloth, with marble endpapers and limitations bookplate. Illustrated with b/w engravings and drawings and colour plates. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.

Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia

DARWIN, Charles. Ed. by.. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle during the Years 1832-1836. 5 parts in 3 vols. (complete and all published). Facsimile reprint.. , 1980.

Price: US$604.70 + shipping

Description: Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1980. (Orig. publ. London: 1838-1843). 4to. Uniformly bound in orig. qtr. blue morocco with spine titling labels. Gilt. Copiously illust. in both colour and b/w incl. many fold. plates. Ed. lim. to 750 numbered sets. Fine.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

DARWIN, Charles (edit.).. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle During the Years 1832-1836. FACSIMILE REPRINT 1980.. Nova Pacifica. Wellington New Zealand 3 volumes. Large 4to, 1980.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Description: Volume I : RICHARD OWEN - Fossil Mammals; GEORGE R. WATERHOUSE - Mammalia. pp. 28, [4], iv, iv, 111, [1]; [iii]-ix, [3], v, [5], 97, [1]. 32 colour plates, 34 plain plates [3 folding]. Volume II : JOHN GOULD - Birds. pp. 5, [9], ii, (3)-156, [8]. 50 colour plates [PLUS 2 loose plates added]. Volume III : LEONARD JENYNS - Fish; THOMAS BELL - Reptiles. pp. 5, [1], xv, [1], 172; [2], vi, 51, [1]. 49 plain plates. Quarter blue morocco, tan cloth sides, NO. 318 of a LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies, inscribed to RICHARD FREEMAN from his wife Mary, small patch of fading at the top edge of the front board of v. III, slight smudge at the front lower edge of the book-block from shelf contact in each volume, a tiny mark to the fore-edge of the book-block affecting the first two leaves v.II, otherwise a very good set, EX LIBRIS RICHARD FREEMAN, bibliographer of Charles Darwin with a folded card being an invitation to Freeman to attend a presentation launch of this title by David Attenborough.

Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom

Darwin, Charles. Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Facsimile edition. Nova Pacifica, Wellington, NZ, 1980.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Description: Darwin, Charles (1809-82), ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols., 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates (incl. color). Wellington, New Zealand: Nova Pacifica, 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco, cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles, "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" ("Publisher's Note"). Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843, The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition.

Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.