[Collection of 26 Plates and Maps of the…

Very rare collection of the twenty six plates and maps from the second volume only (and its appendix volume) of the narrative of the Beagle’s second voyage entitled;

Darwin, Charles, King, Phillip Parker and Fitzroy, Robert, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle’s Circumnavigation of the Globe

Fitzroy made the voyage between 1831 and 1836 to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. ‘The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin’s intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science, knowing the importance of evidence, almost convinced that species had not always been as they were since the creation but had undergone change. The experiences of his five years and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought’