Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1311
  • 1311

Wallace, Alfred Russel

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Description

  • 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
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FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), (vol.1) xxiv, 478pp., [ii]+50pp. adverts dated December 1868; (vol.2) [iv], 524pp., 2 folding maps, 8 plates, original green pictorial cloth gilt, slipcase 

Provenance

Daniel Waters, Coventry, bookplate; Albert Harrison, bookplate

Catalogue Note

"On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written" (DSB).

Wallace travelled in the East Indies from 1854 to 1862. During this period, he formulated the principle of natural selection, making many fundamental discoveries in biology, geology, geography, ethnography and other natural sciences.