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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.

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By Darwin, Charles
tenth thousand. xv,519pp. + 32pp. catalog (dated January 1863)pp. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Blind stamped decoration to boards. Brown endpapers with bookbinders sticker (Edmonds & Remnant) on rear pastedown. Slight soiling to endpapers with subtle previous owners name to ffep. Cloth in good state. Boards show light bumping to corners and bow inwards slightly. 13 engravings in text. Slight foxing to preliminaries though generally text block is clean, bright and tight. A very nice copy. very good Freeman 20. Final definitive text with new preliminaries and a postscript on p. VII. First printing to be bound in the same style as the three editions of 'The Origin of the Species'. "The page height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance".
Published by: London John Murray 1860, 1860
Vendor: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC

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By Darwin, Charles
tenth thousand. xv,519pp. + 32pp. catalog (dated January 1863)pp. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Blind stamped decoration to boards. Brown endpapers with bookbinders sticker (Edmonds & Remnant) on rear pastedown. Slight soiling to endpapers with subtle previous owners name to ffep. Cloth in good state. Boards show light bumping to corners and bow inwards slightly. 13 engravings in text. Slight foxing to preliminaries though generally text block is clean, bright and tight. A very nice copy. very good Freeman 20. Final definitive text with new preliminaries and a postscript on p. VII. First printing to be bound in the same style as the three editions of 'The Origin of the Species'. "The page height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance".
Published by: London John Murray 1860, 1860
Vendor: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC

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