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A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.
A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.

the development of zoogeography


WALLACE, Alfred Russel.

The Geographical Distribution of Animals with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. With maps and illustrations. In two volumes.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1876.

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First edition, a handsomely bound set of this important work. With the bookplates of San Francisco businessman and University of California Regent James K. Moffit, Jr. (1865-1955).

'Wallace studied the fauna of the Malay peninsula and was struck both with its resemblances to and differences from that of South America. His studies resulted in this world-wide study, a pioneering work in zoogeography, and Wallace's most comprehensive monograph' (Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 2178).

First edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); colour folding map frontispiece to volume I, 6 other colour maps of which 2 are folding, and 20 engraved plates, errata list to volume I on the verso of the plate list and on a separate leaf in volume II, bookplate to each volume, contents spotted; early 20th century green half morocco with green pebble-grain cloth sides, spines gilt in compartments with bishop's mitre and crow tools, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bindings little rubbed at the extremities, a very good set; 503 & 607pp.

Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 2178.

Stock code 117766

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A finely bound first edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's important work on zoogeography, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, published in 1876.

The Geographical Distribution of Animals

$3,756.00
$3,756.00

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