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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1892. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle ... by Charles Darwin ... Naturalist to the Expedition. London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1846.
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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1892.
Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle ... by Charles Darwin ... Naturalist to the Expedition. London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1846.
8vo (222 x 140 mm). Letterpress title, folding map of the southern portion of South America, dated 1839, 5 folding engraved plates, 4 dampstained, one margin slightly soiled, 1p of advertisements for Darwin's recent geological works and other authors' works on the Zoological studies from the Beagle Voyage. Original brown cloth, lightly faded, joints at head and foot of spine slightly split, front inner hinge cracking.
On Darwin's return from his Voyage on the Beagle to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, he published a series of books on the geology of the places in South America that he visited on the Voyage. All were issued in small numbers to a limited scientifically-minded audience, and are rare on the market. It wasn't until Darwin published his famous work On the Origin of Species in 1859, that Darwin came to International attention. His observations of the fauna on the Galapagos, an isolated ecosystem, contributed considerably to the formation of his ideas on the evolution of species. Freeman 273; Norman 857; Sabin 18646.
8vo (222 x 140 mm). Letterpress title, folding map of the southern portion of South America, dated 1839, 5 folding engraved plates, 4 dampstained, one margin slightly soiled, 1p of advertisements for Darwin's recent geological works and other authors' works on the Zoological studies from the Beagle Voyage. Original brown cloth, lightly faded, joints at head and foot of spine slightly split, front inner hinge cracking.
On Darwin's return from his Voyage on the Beagle to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, he published a series of books on the geology of the places in South America that he visited on the Voyage. All were issued in small numbers to a limited scientifically-minded audience, and are rare on the market. It wasn't until Darwin published his famous work On the Origin of Species in 1859, that Darwin came to International attention. His observations of the fauna on the Galapagos, an isolated ecosystem, contributed considerably to the formation of his ideas on the evolution of species. Freeman 273; Norman 857; Sabin 18646.