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: Folio Society, 2017. 1st ed thus, two volumes, octavo, pp.liii, 329; xi, 332-655, colour fronts portrait to first volume with colour fronts to second volume, title-page vignettes, profusely illustrated with sixty-eight colour and b&w plates plates, original pictorial cloth boards, light bump to one cnr of pictorial slip-case. Near fine condition.

First published in 1896, this edition follows that of the first edition and includes the 1858 paper by Wallace 'On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart from the Original Type', originally published in the Linnean Society Journal. Item #99976

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