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London. : John Murray, 1882. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol. I xiv 473 pages Vol. II x 495 pages, plus 32 pages of other John Murray publication. Green cloth with gilt print on spine. On both volumes the boards are lightly rubbed , its edges lightly chipped and both have an ownership stamp and a gift inscription, else a clean, unmarked copy in solid binding. An attractive set. Second Edition Revised, Fifth Thousand. "A large proportion of the book contains detailed information on the domestication of animals and plants but it also contains in Chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he called Pangenesis." From Darwin's Preface: "The eleventh chapter, and that on Pangenesis, are those which have been most altered, parts having been re-modelled; but I will hive a lisy of the more important alterations for the sake of those who may possess the first edition of this book

London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiii 356 pages, indexed, plus a page listing Alfred Wallace's other publications. Green cloth, with gilt print on spine. The tail's outer edge is chipped, with loss of cloth, on the front board; and the head of the spine strip lightly damaged. and both boards are lightly rubbed. There is a small bookseller's label on the front paste down and an ownership stamp on the title page and the half title page and the outer edge p.100; p162 has a neat annotation on the outer edge, and sadly there is intermittent mild foxing throughout the book. Overall a clean, unmarked copy in very good binding. Some"Wallace's Tropical Nature, and Other Essays' is a collection of essays including Wallace's observations on equatorial vegetation, animal life, and sexual. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was… Read More