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.
$12,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-149865
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"THE FINEST SCIENTIFIC TRAVEL BOOK EVER WRITTEN": Rare First Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago
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).
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
$12,500.00
In Stock
