Author: BEDDALL, BARBARA G. (EDITOR)
Title: Wallace and Bates in the Tropics: An Introduction to the Theory of Natural Selection
Description: The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing. Editor Barbara G. Beddall has supplied portions of journals by explorers Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates to help explain the theory of natural selection. The two explored much of the Amazon basin, and Wallace spent years exploring the Malay Archipelago. With maps of both areas. --- In reinforced binding; full green cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt to cover and spine. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of the two men superimposed on maps of both areas. --- A well-preserved copy, unmarked and newish, though with remainder mark to textblock lower edge. A diagonal line on cloth may have been intentionally added. Unclipped jacket ($5.95), with mild rubbing to extremities but remains intact; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; ix, [3], 241 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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