[Rarebooks] fs: Darwin's journal during the HMS Beagle voyage

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(No. 9044 )  Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). 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. (IN 
TWO VOLUMES).
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1846. First American edition, 
Original cloth, Duodecimos, vii, 351 and v, [6]-324 pages. Near Fine.
      Darwin's HMS Beagle journal was originally published as the natural 
history volume of Captain Robert FitzRoy's 1839 report on the South American 
and Australian surveying voyages of the ships HMS Adventure and Beagle. The 
present set, published by Harper & Brothers as Vols. X and XI in their New 
Miscellany series, was Darwin's first published appearance in the United 
States. The field notes and observations herein formed the basis of his 
later evolutionary theories. FREEMAN #383. Bound in original dark brown 
cloth over boards with spines lettered in gilt and decorated in blind. 
Blind-stamped borders to upper and lower boards, illustration of hands 
passing a torch stamped in gilt on upper boards and in blind on lower 
boards. Many leaves in both volumes unopened, with a few leaves roughly 
opened affecting edges. Minor wear at spine extremities including shallow 
chipping at heads of spines. The lower joints of both volumes have minor 
splits to the cloth toward head of spines. A remarkably well preserved set 
with gilt still bright.    $2500.00
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