FIRST EDITION WITH PREFATORY MATERIAL BY DARWIN’S GREAT-GRANDSON RICHARD DARWIN KEYNES

Full title: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World under Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. Introduced by Richard Keynes

Octavo (245 x 168mm), pp. xxxiv (half-title, verso blank, title, colophon, contents, blank, illustrations, ‘Introduction’ and ‘Suggestions for Further Reading’ by Keynes, blank, ‘Note on Illustrations’ by Keynes, ‘Preface’), [2 (‘Postscript’, verso blank)], 518, [6 (blank)]. Colour-printed portrait frontispiece after George Richmond, and 12 colour-printed and 6 monochrome plates, with illustrations after Conrad Martens, John Gould, Philip Gidley King, Phillip Parker King, Robert FitzRoy, et al. printed recto-and-verso. Illustrations, diagrams and plans in the text. Original blue buckram by The Bath Press, upper board and spine blocked in gilt and black after a design by David Eccles, top edges blue, map endpapers reproducing the chart of the Beagle’s track, original slipcase. (Very small mark on top edges, slipcase a little marked and bumped.) A very good, clean copy.