Marshall a j jock (3 risultati)

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, small ownership label on the fly-leaf, o/w fine in like price-clipped dustjacket with a small professionally closed tear. A study of the discoveries and observations of Charles Darwin of the "Beagle" and Thomas Henry Huxley of the survey ship "Rattlesnake" in Australia in the mid-1800s. Includes some sepia ink drawings by Huxley, as well as a foreword by painter Russell Drysdale, who collaborated with Marshall on "Journey Among Men".…

1st & only ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), full-page sepia (brown tinted) drawings, minor edgewear jacket (top corner front flap clipped, tiny tear slight loss one letter spine, spine toned), light toning endpapers, top edge & front endpapers minimally foxed, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 142 pp. (Full citation this ISBN: Darwin and Huxley in Australia, by A. J. Marshall, Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. First and only edition, hardback with dustjacket.) The story of two obscure young Englishmen who visited Australia in the service of William IV, Queen Victoria and the Admiralty. The first was Charles Darwin, official naturalist in His Majesty's survey ship 'Beagle', which sailed into Sydney Cove in 1836. The second was Thomas Henry Huxley, assistant to the 'Rattlesnake', which dropped anchor in Farm Cove eleven years later. This account of their activities by the late Professor A. J. (Jock) Marshall is the most detailed recent account. Plus dedication to the late author by artist Russell Drysdale. (The drawings are mostly reproductions of pencil sketches.). …

142 pp, plates: reproductions of pencil and wash line drawings, fine copy in like, illustrated, price-clipped d/j. By Jock Marshall, foundation Professor of Zoology and Comparative Physiology at Monash University, Clayton, Victoria. First edition, posthumous.