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New York.: Dover.. Reprint.. (c.1962).. Maps, one folding, black and white illustrations, xvii + 515pp, appendix, index, paperback, spine faded, good sound paperback copy. First published in 1869. Wallace travelled through Singapore, Malacca, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Celebes, the Moluccas and the Papuan islands. Facsimile of the 10th edition. .
The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. by Wallace, Alfred Russel - 1869
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature.
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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Macmillan., 1869. 2nd. Ed.. Two volume set. Both with half titles, full-titles & illustrated frontispieces. Two folding colour maps and wood-engraved illustrations. 8vo. Hardbacks. A very minor amount of scattered foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition. Endpapers sometime renewed with period style replacements. Original green cloth boards, gilt decoration and lettering in most pleasing, very bright condition. A thoroughly very good set.
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The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature.
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The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
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Macmillan., 1890. New Ed.. pp.xvii [iii], 515 with b/w. frontis., illus., and two colour fold-out maps. Crown 8vo. Hardback. Contents very clean, sharp and in nr. fine condition. Original green cloth boards, inconspicuously restored and in near fine condition. Amorial bookplate and signature of Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, Baronet (1864-1935); signature of S. Stillman Berry (1887-1984), American marine zoologist and renowned Malacologist; and bookplate of Bryan Sage (distinguished Naturalist).
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The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature
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Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. 1885 Harper cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decoration. 638 pages +12 adverts. Illustrated including 2 foldout maps (first repaired at binding. Light wear head and toe of spine. Ownership pencil flyleaf. Please email for photos.
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The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. [Eighth Edition]. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WANTING ONE PLATE
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Macmillan,, 1883. 8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the…
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