[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise.... London: MacMillan and Co., 1869.
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise.... London: MacMillan and Co., 1869.
2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt (recased preserving original endpapers, spines slightly leaned). Provenance: Marshall S. Foster (signatures).
Second edition, published in the same year as the first edition.
"On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written" (DSB). During his travels in the East Indies from 1854-1862, Wallace formulated the principle of natural selection.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
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