NMLP P-035980 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (The Voyage of the Beagle)

Charles Darwin · Henry Colburn (London) · 1839

The composite Narrative, with Darwin's text as Volume III ('Journal and Remarks'), was issued as a set by May 1839; the separately-titled Journal of Researches, with new preliminary leaves and advertisements dated August 1839, reissues the same first-edition sheets under Darwin's own title and is technically the second issue rather than a new edition. A third issue, with the half-title and title leaf reprinted and dated 1840, followed and is the scarcest of the three; all three issues share the same text setting.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035980 for "Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (The Voyage of the Beagle)" by Charles Darwin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035980, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).