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Beebe, Charles William (1877-1962) Galápagos. World's End.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.
Limited Author's Autograph edition, quarto, copy number 32 of 100 printed on French handmade paper and signed by Beebe on the inserted manuscript limitation, illustrated with frontispiece, portrait, eight color plates and eighty-two black-and-white figures, including a duplicate of one signature and the corresponding photograph [Fig. 37]; scattered light foxing and offsetting from a few plates, closed tear to front fly-leaf; bound in original white gilt-stamped publisher's cloth, with pictorial endpapers, teg, edges untrimmed; in the original gray cloth publisher's dust jacket; front hinge cracked with front board a bit loose, text block cracked in multiple places, spotting to edges; rubbed, minor fraying at edges, spine faded, small tear to lower flap, scattered tiny splatter stains; 11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.
A sensational account of Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands for the purpose of supplementing the research and data of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. A folding brochure advertising a lecture by Beebe on the topic of this expedition which also includes the publisher's advertisement for the present lot on the verso is inserted.
From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
