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Published by Hocken Library (1969), Dunedin, 1969
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Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in mylar cover.; 1969 facsimile reprint of the 1846 London first edition. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 202 x 128mm. "This book, tenth in the Hocken Library series of reprints, is a true facsimile… of the original edition of 1846. Dr T. M. Hocken in his 'Bibliography of the Literature relating to New Zealand' notes the original as a work of great rarity, stating that only sixty copies were issued. Captain Robert Fitzroy, 1805-1865, first came to notice for the excellence of his hydrographic work when in command of H. M. S. Beagle during the 'thirties, accompanied by the naturalist Charles Darwin. During 1835 Fitzroy had briefly visited the Bay of Islands concerning which, in 1838, he gave evidence favourable to the missionaries before a Select Committee of the House of Lords. In December 1843 he assumed office as second Governor of New Zealand, commencing and administration bedevilled by lack of finance and inadequate military resources, an administration that began amidst the racial strife of the Wairau Massacre and ended with the rebellion of Heke in the North. Unashamedly philo-Maori, Fitzroy sought a policy of conciliation that by his own lights was both politic and just, a policy systematically villified by the New Zealand Company and its colonists, and uncomprehended by the Colonial Office half a world distant. The present work is at once an apologia for his governorship and an indictment of the organised settlement of New Zealand. Recalled in 1845 for failing to observe his Instructions, Fitzroy was later to record a career of distinct as a meteorologist, establishing the first weather forecasting service in Great Britain. Elected to the Royal Society in 1851, he rose eventually to the rank of Vice-Admiral, before taking his own life in 1865." - from dust-jacket blurb.
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Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836 [in] The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume the Sixth, 1836. Part II.
Robert Fitz-Roy [Charles Darwin's Beagle Voyage, record by Robert Fitzroy]; Thomas Mitchell; John Helder Wedge
Language: English
Published by John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1836
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Soft cover. 1st Edition. Volume VI, Part 1. Single issue. First edition. Original wraps. Cover and spine rubbed and moderately soiled, though still very well preserved for wraps from the period. Contains Robert Fitzroy's preliminary account of the voyage of the Beagle, describing Charles Darwin as "a zealous volunteer. He will m…ake known the results of his five years' voluntary seclusion and disinterested exertions in the cause of science." Encompassing pages 311-343. Also includes John Helder Wedge's "On the Country Around Port Philip, South Australia" and Thomas Mitchell's "Latest Accounts from Australia".
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Published by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, London, 1863
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Add to basketFirst edition copy of FitzRoy's pioneering work on weather forecasting. Often recognised for his time as the captain of the HMS Beagle during Darwin's infamous voyage, FitzRoy was also also the founder of what is now known as the Met Office and conducted invaluable research into understanding the patterns and movement of the wea…ther (he is the originator of the term 'forecast'). With 16 lithograph plates, two in colour on blue paper, an appendix and index at the rear, pp. [xii], 464, [iv], [16 plates], [4-page advertisement]. First Edition. Bound in blue horizontally ruled cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown endpapers. Octavo In good condition, rubbing to corners and edges, gilt bright, cloth a little marked but generally clean, hinges weak and starting to perish, textblock reasonably firm and square, 1cm tear to inner fold of one plate, very light water stain to pp. 141 - 144, some light foxing, pages otherwise clean.
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Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe volumes I and II with appendix to volume II [3 volumes]
Fitz-Roy, Robert [Fitzroy, Capt. Robert; King, Capt. Philip Parker; Darwin, Charles ]
Published by Published by Henry Colburn, 1839
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Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United KingdomKeoghs Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. , Volume I xxviii, [4], 597 pp +errata. Volume II xiv [2], 694 pp. Appendix Volume,viii, 352 pp., 54 black and white plates which include 7 folding maps (6 of which are loose). The loose maps are all facsimiles and not originals. First Edition , rebound, all three books in similar condition, exte…rnally clean and sound, a few small repairs to preliminary pages, a little scattered foxing to plates, vol 2 has water stains to early plates, overall in very good condition , quarter cream and pale blue paper over boards, black titles to spine labels, new endpapers , Octavo, 23.5 cm x 15 cm Hardback ISBN.
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Published by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green., London, 1863
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United KingdomMarrins Bookshop
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. x + [ii] + 464 pp. + [4] pp. publisher's advertisements Bound in original ruled patterned blue cloth, gilt. Rough cut edges. Brown endpapers. A little wear to extremities, including corners and head and tail of spine and occasional traces of foxing; one small tear on plate…XII neatly repaired; otherwise a very good copy. Two signatures on half title page, 1863 (crossed through) and 1894 and a few pencil marginal notes. Illustrated by 16 lithograph plates, including folding, 2 double page pictorial, and 2 in colour on blue paper and by text figures and tables in text. A scarce first edition in original condition, of the pioneering book on meteorology by Captain, later Rear Admiral, Robert FitzRoy (1805-65), naval officer, scientist, hydrographer and meteorologist He commanded HMS Beagle on her famous second voyage around the world of 1831-36, on which Charles Darwin served as his companion. In 1854 FitzRoy was appointed to a new Board of Trade post to deal with the collection of weather data at sea, a forerunner of the Meteorological Office, and later developed the concept of weather forecasts based on predictive charts. In 2002 the shipping forecast sea area, Finisterre, was renamed FitzRoy in his honour. The book has fourteen appendices and a fine collection of plates. NAVAL/MILITARY WEATHER METEOROLOGY NAVAL 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NAVAL/MILITARY.
