WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection.
A series of essays. Second edition, with corrections and additions.
Stock Code 119659
New York, Macmillan and Co., 1871.
Alfred Russel Wallace's scientific work on species distribution in the Malay Peninsula, and the joint announcement of his and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858, made him one of the great figures of nineteenth-century science. This collection contains ten essays that had been published in periodicals over the preceding fifteen years, including his key paper on evolution, 'On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type' (1858).
Second edition; 8vo; bookplate of Sydney Ross separated from front pastedown, contents toned; original green pebble-grain cloth blocked in blind, titles to spine gilt, brown coated endpapers, cloth very slightly worn at the extremities, an excellent copy; 384pp.
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