DARWIN, CHARLES, Captains ROBERT FITZROY and PHILIP BARKER KING. 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. London: Henry Colburn 1839. 4 vols. (vols. 1-3 and Appendix to vol. 2), 8vo, half hard-grain morocco, spines chipped, extremities rubbed, joints tender, short tear to inner edge of South America chart in vol. 1, title-page of vol. 2 a bit foxed, mostly marginal spotting to the plates, light foxing to folds of the loose folding maps. FIRST EDITION, first issue of volume 3, half-titles, 47 steel-engraved plates and charts after P.P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens and others by T. Landseer, S. Bull, T.A. Prior and others, 9 folding engraved maps (8 loose in pockets) by J. Gardner and J. and C. Walker. Sabin 37826; Freeman 10; Hill, pp. 104-5 ("Volume 3 is Darwin's account...which is one of the most interesting records of natural history exploration ever written and is one of the most important, for it was on this voyage that Darwin prepared for his lifework, ultimately leading to The Origin of Species"). (4)

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DARWIN, CHARLES, Captains ROBERT FITZROY and PHILIP BARKER KING. 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. London: Henry Colburn 1839. 4 vols. (vols. 1-3 and Appendix to vol. 2), 8vo, half hard-grain morocco, spines chipped, extremities rubbed, joints tender, short tear to inner edge of South America chart in vol. 1, title-page of vol. 2 a bit foxed, mostly marginal spotting to the plates, light foxing to folds of the loose folding maps. FIRST EDITION, first issue of volume 3, half-titles, 47 steel-engraved plates and charts after P.P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens and others by T. Landseer, S. Bull, T.A. Prior and others, 9 folding engraved maps (8 loose in pockets) by J. Gardner and J. and C. Walker. Sabin 37826; Freeman 10; Hill, pp. 104-5 ("Volume 3 is Darwin's account...which is one of the most interesting records of natural history exploration ever written and is one of the most important, for it was on this voyage that Darwin prepared for his lifework, ultimately leading to The Origin of Species"). (4)