Journal of Researches by Darwin C (15 results)

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

pp.xi, 432. 8vo. Fine softback. When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime.

Condition: Fair. 1910. Reprinted. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Darwin's wonderful account, in a handy compact edition. pp.512. Illus. nd; c.1920.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. The voyage of the Beagle. World Library. nd; c.1920. Looks like a cheap version of the Minerva Library ed. pp492. num. illus. Nice condition.

Hardcover. pp.492 with text figs. Binding stained and pulled at spine ends. Plum cloth binding. Contents very clean and bright. Good to vg. Freeman 78. 0.0.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. New Edition. New Edition, with portrait. Green cloth, gilt lettering, significant mottling to front and back boards, with a little to the spine also. Front hinge cracked, becoming loose at top. Internally crisp and clean. Deaccessioned from the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, having been presented to them in 1895, the label for which is pasted to the FFEP. Overall Good. Photos available on request. This account of Darwin's travels on the Beagle was his first published book, appearing first in 1839.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Undated but c. 1890-1900, published for Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books: "From the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845." In accordance with this, the dedication page refers to the 2nd edition. Half bound in burgundy red leather with red marbled paper boards and matching endpapers, 5 spine bands, gilt spine titles and decoration, gilt top edge. Solidly bound, spine faded to mid red, very lightly rubbed extremities. Spotting to edges of textblock, internally confined to first and last few leaves; otherwise internally very crisp, clean and bright with no age toning or inscriptions. Overall Very Good. Photos available on request. A very lovely copy of this seminal work. N.D. (c. 1890-1900).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. John Murray and the Book Society (illustrator). A rather nice Folio ed. in fine slipcase. pp518. Illus. Sm. 4to.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on backstrip. Pages and text clear throughout. Light foxing on title page and frontispiece. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B32 Facsimile Slip case.

2 vols, cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, 6, xiii, 240 + 241-497 pp, maps. From the introduction to volumes two and three: "This, Darwin's first book, originally appeared, with the subtitle Journal and Remarks. 1832-1836. as the third volume of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. the whole edited by FitzRoy (Freeman 10). It appeared again later in the same year as an independent book under the above title. Many years later, he wrote in his autobiography 'The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than any of my other books'In 1845. John Murray asked Darwin if he would rewrite it, in a shorter and more popular style, for inclusion in his Colonial and Home Library. This he did and the book was greatly altered and issued without the map* (Freeman 14): the present edition reprints Darwin's original text published in 1839." Near Very Good.

XVI, 496 S. OLwd. m. goldgepr. Rtit. Vord. Gelenk leicht gelockert. Sprache: Englisch.

12440 DARWIN C. 1891 JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES. INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIEIS VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE ROUND THE WORLD. 492PP. ILLUSTRATED. (BS-334).

9803 1889 519PP. ILLUSTRATED. HARD COVER LAST BLANK PAGE HAS A SMALL TEAR ON IT OTHERWIS EIN VERY GOOD CONDITION STE 324.