Charles Darwin

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

John Murray, 1860. Hard Cover. Second edition of the journals from Darwin's 5 year voyage on the HMS Beagle. It has been rebacked with leather, preserving the original quarter leather boards and spine which had become separated. Original endpapers have some foxing and ghosting. Pastedown on front cover advertising for R Grant and son of Edinburgh. Text is clean and unmarked but there appears to be faint remainder spray on the edges. It was the observations on this trip, which began when Darwin was 22, that paved the way for his theory of natural selection and evolution. Good. Item #132

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