- 372
[Darwin, Charles--FitzRoy, Robert]
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Views of Parts of the Sea Coast of Tierra del Fuego. Taken on board of His Majesty's Surveying Sloop Beagle 1829-30. London: C. Rice, 1831
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FIRST EDITION, oblong folio (330 x 422mm.), 12pp., 42 plain illustrations on 28 plates [4 double page], lithographed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. after W.W. Wilson, F. Barrallier and J. Meggett, contemporary manuscript list of the plates loosely inserted, original printed wrappers with title, blue morocco-backed cloth box, plates with some spotting or discoloration, wrappers somewhat soiled and frayed, rebacked
RARE. Only one copy is recorded at auction by ABPC in the last 40 years and only one copy on COPAC. It is not traced in Sabin, Hill or Abbey.
"[FitzRoy] was appointed to take command of the brig Beagle, following the suicide of her former commander, Captain Pringle Stokes. The Beagle and the Adventure, under Captain Phillip Parker King, were engaged in charting the coasts of southern South America. Here FitzRoy's seamanship and endurance were tested when he and his surveying crew spent thirty-three days in an open whaleboat in the depths of the subantarctic winter while exploring away from their ship" (ODNB). Darwin joined the Beagle for FitzRoy's second voyage in 1831.
RARE. Only one copy is recorded at auction by ABPC in the last 40 years and only one copy on COPAC. It is not traced in Sabin, Hill or Abbey.
"[FitzRoy] was appointed to take command of the brig Beagle, following the suicide of her former commander, Captain Pringle Stokes. The Beagle and the Adventure, under Captain Phillip Parker King, were engaged in charting the coasts of southern South America. Here FitzRoy's seamanship and endurance were tested when he and his surveying crew spent thirty-three days in an open whaleboat in the depths of the subantarctic winter while exploring away from their ship" (ODNB). Darwin joined the Beagle for FitzRoy's second voyage in 1831.
Condition
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