DARWIN, Charles (editor). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836, London: Smith, Elder, 1839-43, 5 parts in 3 volumes, 4°, 3 engraved plates and 163 lithographed plates, 82 hand-coloured (perforation stamp on titles, accession stamp on second leaf of each volume, ink stamp on bottom right-hand corner of recto of each plate, one engraved plate spotted, several plates with creased corner, without the errata slip called for in part II), original grey-green embossed cloth (Freeman variant d, part of backstrips torn with loss, rubbed). [Freeman 9; Nissen ZBI 1391: Norman 586] Provenance: James Hall (blind-stamp and ink stamp on titles) (3)

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DARWIN, Charles (editor). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836, London: Smith, Elder, 1839-43, 5 parts in 3 volumes, 4°, 3 engraved plates and 163 lithographed plates, 82 hand-coloured (perforation stamp on titles, accession stamp on second leaf of each volume, ink stamp on bottom right-hand corner of recto of each plate, one engraved plate spotted, several plates with creased corner, without the errata slip called for in part II), original grey-green embossed cloth (Freeman variant d, part of backstrips torn with loss, rubbed). [Freeman 9; Nissen ZBI 1391: Norman 586] Provenance: James Hall (blind-stamp and ink stamp on titles) (3)

拍品專文

Part III contains the cancellans half title, the 2nd issue title with the author's name and the cancellandum half title.

This work was originally issued in 19 numbers making 5 parts. Darwin contributed a geological introduction to Part I and a geographical introduction to part II as well as adding notices to the text of all five parts. The authors to the parts are Richard Owen (Fossil Mammalia), Robert Waterhouse (Mammalia), John Gould (Birds which was finished by George Robert Gray after Gould went to Australia), Leonard Jenyns (Fish) and Thomas Bell (Reptiles).

An expensive work which was supported by the Duke of Somerset, Earl of Derby, Prof. William Whewell, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury as well as the publishers and Darwin himself.