Narrative of Beagle's Scientific Voyage

King, Captain Philip Parker, Fitzroy, Captain Robert and Darwin, Charles. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing the examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. London, 1839. Three volumes in four, large octavo, with 10 charts, all but one folding and most finely linen-backed as bound, and 10 engraved plates, errata leaf in the first volume, bound without half-titles, contemporary calf, spines richly gilt, gilt arms on the sides, gilt edges, by Lewis. Some foxing on the plates as usual. All first editions, a very handsome set of this sought-after work, edited by Fitzroy, recording the most celebrated scientific voyage of the nineteenth century. The volume by Darwin, Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M. S. Beagle, in which he documents his assembly of the evidence supporting his nascent theory of the evolution of species, is regarded as the most important of his books after the Origin and one of the finest scientific journals ever written.