Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
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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
