Wallace, Alfred Russel

Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology

London: MacMillan and Co., 1891. New edition with corrections Pp. xii, 492. Publisher’s original forest green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines at the top and bottom of the spine, the front and rear cloth-covered boards have blind-stamped vertical lines at the top, dark green endpapers, 8vo. This volume combines “Natural Selection” first published in 1870 with “Tropical Nature” first published in 1878 into a new edition with corrections first published in 1891. The front facing endpapers display two bookplates -- Richmond College, Surrey (and) Library of the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond, Surrey. The spine has three small vertical gold lines at the base; there are no other library marks and few signs of use (see photos online or email for photos). This volume is only mildly ex-library with light edgewear to cloth in very good condition..

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Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Wonderful Century: It's Successes and Failures

London: W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1898. First edition Pp. xii, 400; frontis black-and-white portrait of Wallace, 11 folding diagrams at the end. Publisher’s original forest green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines at the top and bottom of the spine, the front and rear cloth-covered boards have blind-stamped vertical lines at the top, black endpapers, lg 8vo. In this volume Wallace documents the intellectual achievements of 19th century. He also analyses its social 'failures', such as poverty and militarism. This work was simultaneously published in the USA by Dodd, Mead & Co in New York. No ownership marks and few signs of use. A very bright and clean copy. Rarely found in such nice condition. The endpapers are lightly foxed, there are minor wrinkles at the fold to diagram 1, pencil mark to the front attached endpaper, a near fine copy..

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Book number: 9625

Catalogue: Alfred R. Wallace