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Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo in maroon cloth covers with gold lettering to spine, with dust jacket. **CONDITION: Fine, as new. In Near Fine dust jacket, which shows light shelf wear. ** A handsome edition of two of Charles Darwin's most famous works. "On The Origin of Species" (first published 1859) and "The Voyage of the Beagle" (first published in 1839 under the title "Journal and Remarks"). ** "The Voyage of the Beagle" is Darwin's detailed account of the five-year expedition he took on board the ship "HMS Beagle" from 1831 to 1836. Darwin was a recently graduated naturalist from Cambridge University; he had studied the expedition undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt from 1799 to 1804 in the Americas and was eager to make his mark.
Ref: NATH 9421
$40.00