[NATURAL HISTORY]. BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). Galapagos. World's End. New York: G.P. Putnam's at the Knickerbocker Press, 1924.

4to. 9 color plates after paintings by Isabel Cooper, a portrait, map, and 80 monochrome illustrations. Original cream cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine sunned and slightly leaned, some faint soiling to covers).

LIMITED EDITION, number 58 of 100 copies on handmade paper of the "Author's Autograph Edition," 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.

Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas