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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8° (234 x 142mm). 2 folding engraved maps, 4 wood-engravings in text. (One map browned and cleanly torn, the other with slight tear at margin, half-title repaired at bottom margin, title a little frayed and soiled on verso, first leaf of preface soiled, crease-marked and repaired, some further soiling and staining especially of early quires.) Original blue cloth with blind decoration (rebacked, corners worn, minor repairs to pastedowns). Provenance: F.H. Booth (front pastedown inscribed 'F.H. Booth from his aunt Ralston, 1840') -- William Hutchinson, F.G.S., Wolverhampton (inscription on front free endpaper) -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor). [With, tipped-in before half title:]
C. DARWIN. Autograph letter signed to [Dr. Booth, Gower St. as evinced by a separate autograph fragment in Darwin's hand], 12 Upper Gower St., 3 February 1842), 1 page, 8°, soliciting 'your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club (if you ever attend the evening meetings) in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin, at the ballot on next Monday (7th)'. Three other brief and unrelated autograph letters, tipped in at the back of the volume, are from Lord Derby to Wentworth Walker, Thomas Huxley to Mr. [?]Watkins, and John Tyndall to an unidentified correspondent.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, WITH AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM CHARLES CONCERNING HIS BROTHER, ERASMUS. It is well known that the Journal also appeared in 1839 as volume III of the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, under the overall editorship of Robert FitzRoy. This separate edition is accepted as 'technically' the second issue by Freeman: pp. [i-iv] of the preliminaries are cancels and [v-vi], the original volume title, are discarded; while the rest, [vii]-xiv and the text sheets are those of the 3-volume work, 'bearing Vol. III on the first page of each signature'. However, Freeman also notes that both issues were advertised simultaneously in the same set of advertisements in August 1839. The five year world voyage, with the particular task of charting the South American coast, is widely recognised as 'the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science' (DSB III, p. 566). The questions it left in a mind teeming with newly-learned facts led to the gradually-constructed theory of evolution two decades later; his human and scientific quest also made for his most readable book, and the one most frequently published after Origin.
Darwin's letter to Dr. Booth is unpublished although Correspondence does contain a similar letter to J.F. Royle, [2 February 1842], requesting his vote in Erasmus's ballot for the Athenaeum. It is possible that Dr. Booth and F.H. Booth, the owner of this copy, are the same person, but if this is so Darwin was wrong in thinking that he was a member of the Athenaeum. Club records show that the only Booth who may have been a member in 1842 was James Booth, a barrister, who joined in 1834. At any rate, Erasmus Darwin 'came in triumphantly without one black ball' (Emma Darwin to Jessie Sismondi, 8 February [1842], Emma Darwin II: p. 67). Freeman 11; Hill Pacific Voyages p. 104; Norman 584; Sabin 37826.
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8° (234 x 142mm). 2 folding engraved maps, 4 wood-engravings in text. (One map browned and cleanly torn, the other with slight tear at margin, half-title repaired at bottom margin, title a little frayed and soiled on verso, first leaf of preface soiled, crease-marked and repaired, some further soiling and staining especially of early quires.) Original blue cloth with blind decoration (rebacked, corners worn, minor repairs to pastedowns). Provenance: F.H. Booth (front pastedown inscribed 'F.H. Booth from his aunt Ralston, 1840') -- William Hutchinson, F.G.S., Wolverhampton (inscription on front free endpaper) -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003, gift to his doctor). [With, tipped-in before half title:]
C. DARWIN. Autograph letter signed to [Dr. Booth, Gower St. as evinced by a separate autograph fragment in Darwin's hand], 12 Upper Gower St., 3 February 1842), 1 page, 8°, soliciting 'your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club (if you ever attend the evening meetings) in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin, at the ballot on next Monday (7th)'. Three other brief and unrelated autograph letters, tipped in at the back of the volume, are from Lord Derby to Wentworth Walker, Thomas Huxley to Mr. [?]Watkins, and John Tyndall to an unidentified correspondent.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, WITH AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM CHARLES CONCERNING HIS BROTHER, ERASMUS. It is well known that the Journal also appeared in 1839 as volume III of the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, under the overall editorship of Robert FitzRoy. This separate edition is accepted as 'technically' the second issue by Freeman: pp. [i-iv] of the preliminaries are cancels and [v-vi], the original volume title, are discarded; while the rest, [vii]-xiv and the text sheets are those of the 3-volume work, 'bearing Vol. III on the first page of each signature'. However, Freeman also notes that both issues were advertised simultaneously in the same set of advertisements in August 1839. The five year world voyage, with the particular task of charting the South American coast, is widely recognised as 'the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science' (DSB III, p. 566). The questions it left in a mind teeming with newly-learned facts led to the gradually-constructed theory of evolution two decades later; his human and scientific quest also made for his most readable book, and the one most frequently published after Origin.
Darwin's letter to Dr. Booth is unpublished although Correspondence does contain a similar letter to J.F. Royle, [2 February 1842], requesting his vote in Erasmus's ballot for the Athenaeum. It is possible that Dr. Booth and F.H. Booth, the owner of this copy, are the same person, but if this is so Darwin was wrong in thinking that he was a member of the Athenaeum. Club records show that the only Booth who may have been a member in 1842 was James Booth, a barrister, who joined in 1834. At any rate, Erasmus Darwin 'came in triumphantly without one black ball' (Emma Darwin to Jessie Sismondi, 8 February [1842], Emma Darwin II: p. 67). Freeman 11; Hill Pacific Voyages p. 104; Norman 584; Sabin 37826.
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Darwin's letter is not to Dr. Booth but Dr. Francis Boott (1792-1863); the inscription on the pastedown is also to F.H. Boott. An American physician and botanist, Dr. Boott witnessed the first use of ether in Britain at his home in 24 Gower St. A prominent member of the Linnean Society, he was also known for his work on sedges. While his letter is not published in Correspondence (vol. II, 1986), it is known to the Darwin Correspondence Project and listed on their database as 617f.