Alfred Russel Wallace first edition
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"THE FINEST SCIENTIFIC TRAVEL BOOK EVER WRITTEN": Rare First Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago
WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1869.
First edition of one of the greatest travel narratives of the nineteenth century and one of the most important early contributions to the theory of evolution. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth with gilt central vignette of an orangutan to each front panel, tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece to each volume, pictorial vignette to each title page, illustrated with six engraved plates, nine lithographed maps (2 folding) tracing Wallace's journey, and numerous illustrations, 2pp. and 52pp. publisher's ads at end of vol. I dated December 1868. In very good condition, remnants of bookplate removal to each pastedown, ownership names to each title page. Rare and desirable, "one of the nineteenth century's best scientific travel books" (Smith).
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 149865
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First Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
Island Life: or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1880.
First edition of Wallace's classic work on the geographic distribution of animals. Octavo, original publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, vignette of the world stamped in gilt to the front panel, hand-colored frontispiece map showing the distribution of jays with tissue guard, illustrated with various maps and charts. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A nice example of this important contribution to evolutionary biology.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 151846
