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Lot 221
[NATURAL HISTORY]. BEEBE, Charles. Galapagos. NY, 1924. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, SIGNED. 

Estimate
$600 - 800
Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). Galapagos. World's End. New York: Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam's, 1924.

4to. 9 color plates after paintings by Isabel Cooper, portrait, map, and 80 monochrome illustrations. Contemporary deluxe? brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, gilt stamp-signed by Putnam's.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 48 of 100 copies of the "Author's Autograph Edition" on French handmade paper, SIGNED BY BEEBE. In 1923, Beebe sailed as a naturalist on the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition aboard the "Noma." Their route took the party from New York to Florida, Cuba, through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos, with the purpose of collecting and studying rare species of animal and marine life.

[With:] BEEBE. The Arcturus Adventure. An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition. New York: Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam's, 1926. 4to. 77 illustrations including 8 colored plates, maps, photographs, and maps. Contemporary deluxe? brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, gilt stamp-signed by Putnam's. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 50 copies of the "Author's Autograph Edition" on Mirecourt French handmade paper, SIGNED BY BEEBE.



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