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More imagesCharles Darwin: The Beagle Letters; Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin; Frederick Buckhardt; Janet Browne; Gordon Chancellor; John van Wyhe
Published by Cambridge University Press 2008; 2009, Cambridge, 2008
- Hardcover
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. Pristine set of illustrated Cambridge University Press first editions on the letters and notebooks written by Charles Darwin on his famous "Beagle" voyage. Set of two first-edition Cambridge University Press volumes on Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.Col…lection comprised of:(2008) Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters by Frederick Buckhardt;(2009) Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Lettersis bound in the publisher's original cloth, with an unclipped dustwrapper. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle is the publisher's original hardback edition.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters contains a frontispiece, six double-sided colour plates and twelve double-sided monochrome plates. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beaglecontains seven pages of plates to the front of the work and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters features an introduction from Janet Browne.A collection of the notebooks and letters kept by Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the Beagle, taken between December 1831 and October 1836, when Darwin was twenty-two years old. Darwin's travels inspired his 1839 book The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin: The Beagle Lettersis bound in the publisher's original cloth, with an unclipped dustwrapper. Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle is the publisher's original hardback edition. Externally, lovely condition with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper features marginally more bumping and rubbing, especially to the top edge. With the odd mark. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
