A Naturalist’s Voyage
DARWIN, Charles
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: John Murray, 1897
Stock code: 8343
Price: £194.00
8vo., with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 6 small illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on half-title; original dark green, rhea hunt blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, patterned endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, corners very lightly bruised, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a little age-worn else a bright, clean, crisp copy.
With 32p publisher's catalogue (dated January 1898 and partially unopened) bound in at end. Quite apart from its scientific value, Darwin's first published work (1839) is an important travel work in its own right. This is essentially a re-issue of Murray's 1890 edition (Freeman 28) with the postscript incorporated in the text, but preserving the gilt 'rhea' hunt on upper board and gilt '3/6' on backstrip first seen in the 1889 edition (Freeman 21). In addition Captain Fitzroy's name is reset as 'Fitz Roy' on title. Freeman 49.