Captain robert fitzroy (6 Ergebnisse)

360pp. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth in slipcase. Colour frontispiece and plates. Sight mark to backstrip. A near fine copy. First edition thus.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. The first thus of this collection of diary entries, letters and reports to share the history of the H. M. S. Beagle. First thus of A Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle edited by David Stanbury in the original publisher's cloth binding and slipcase.Being passages from the 'Narrative' written by Captain Robert FitzRoy with extracts from his logs, reports and letters.Also includes material from the diary and letters of Charles Darwin, notes from Midshipman Phillip King and letters from Batholomew Sulivan.Illustrated with twelve colour plates based from drawings by Conrad Martens. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and slipcase. The slipcase is very good indeed with some slight wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Fine. Conrad Martens; Various (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. The first thus of this collection of diary entries, letters and reports to share the history of the H. M. S. Beagle. First thus of A Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle edited by David Stanbury in the original publisher's cloth binding and slipcase.Being passages from the 'Narrative' written by Captain Robert FitzRoy with extracts from his logs, reports and letters.Also includes material from the diary and letters of Charles Darwin, notes from Midshipman Phillip King and letters from Batholomew Sulivan.Illustrated with twelve colour plates based from drawings by Conrad Martens. Collated, complete.Prior owner's small doodle to the bottom corner of the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding and slipcase. The slipcase is very good, the rear board is slightly loose and there is some slight wear to the extremities. To the binding, there is some very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Prior owner's small doodle to the bottom corner of the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine. Conrad Martens; Various (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Poor. No slipcase. Knock at base of spine. Dent at base of first 20 approx pages. Minor tanning and foxing to edge of text block.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Wear to exterior, as shown, with discolouring, marks, scuffs and some splitting to cloth along joints, corners bumped. Ffep with previous owners ink inscription, front pastedown with pocket housing two folding maps, one of which is split into two pieces. Inner joint cracked and slightly splitting. Pages are complete with 25 plates, including the frontispiece, and 2 folding maps (Chiloe and Tierra Del Fuego), all as called for. Age toning and the odd mark here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean, as shown. Pages: xiv, [2], 694pp, [1], frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 24 plates.…

8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured plates and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, brown top, a near fine copy in publisher's patterned board slip-case. Loosely inserted is a FDC (10 February 1982) of Charles Darwin stamped for Bournemouth-Poole.