Author: FITZROY, CAPT. ROBERT; KING, CAPT. PHILIP PARKER; DARWIN, CHARLES
Title: 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. Volumes I and II.
Description: London, Henry Colburn. 1839, First Edition. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii, 2 l. 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv, 1 l. 694p, addenda, 41 plates including 2 frontispieces, lacking the four loose folding maps (2 maps in each volume) and the "Chart of a part of South America" in volume I. Volume II is lacking the title page but has the half-title page. Browning mostly front portions of both books and plates, some old marginal damp stains, both books in full tree calf bindings, recased with new marbled endpapers, using original spine strips, lower half of Vol. II spine strip sympathetically replaced. Gilt monogram of General Assembly library on both volumes. Please enquire if you are interested in purchasing volumes separately. Good.

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