Description

• Millennium Edition [Easton Press, Connecticut, 1993]; [frontis plate], 548 pages; dark red full leather boards, gold decorations [Harvard University veritas shield] front & rear, gold titling to spine, five raised bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker, a fine copy
• Darwin’s momentous record of his voyage as Naturalist aboard the Beagle under Captain Robert FitzRoy. Aged just 22 years old, his observations, especially in the Galapagos, would form the foundations of his later Origin of Species
• Part of the Harvard Classics series [50 books] published by Easton Press
• With loose blank bookplate sticker [if that’s your thing]