3 volumes in 4, including the appendix to volume 2. With numerous plates, charts, maps, tables, etc., some folding. (8vo), original blue cloth, gilt spines.
Facsimile edition of the original 1839 publication of the account of the voyages which introduced Charles Darwin to the marvelous and varied botanical and zoological life of the Pacific Ocean, which would provide the basis for his seminal theories of evolution.
