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ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
3 YEARS BEFORE DARWIN PUBLISHED HIS JOURNAL
[DARWINIANA] - BARROW, John. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P.P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Communicated by Sir John Barrow, Bart. [From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. VI].
London, John Murray, 1836. 8vo. With 3 pages of tables of position measurements, and notes on chronometers. Disbound.
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First edition of the first detailed report of the voyage of the Beagle, published three years before Darwin’s Journal. The article was communicated by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), Secretary of the Admiralty and founder of the Royal Geographical Society. Darwin's name is mentioned on a number of occasions: on p. 329 Barrow notes Darwin's opinion on the direction of motion of a shock wave resulting from an earthquake.
In very good condition, with a library stamp in the margin of two pages, and with the following article (Charles Hügel, “Notice of a Visit to the Himmáleh Mounttains”, pp. 343-349). Very good copy of the very first detailed report of the Beagle's voyage.
