Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras including a Revision and attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates by Wallace, Alfred Russel - 1892

Macmillan and Co, 1895 Ex-library with minimal marking - Zetland County Library stamp to title page, accession number, sticker ghost to ffep verso. Second and revised edition. Green cloth worn, marked and rubbed, wear to spine top and tail, black eps, foxing to prelims, name to half title, tissue-guarded map frontis, internally clean and sound, good.

London: MacMillan, 1892. Second, revised edition. Front gutter cracking, tissue guard browned, light foxing to endpapers and light bumping to spine, edges and corners of boards. Clean, bright and tight.. 2nd. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo.

London: MacMillan and Co., 1892. xx, 563, col frontis, 2 tinted plates, 24 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. green cloth, spine slightly darkened, front hinge cracked, but firm. Tissue guard to frontis browned, minor browning to page edges. Owner's name to half-title. Very good.. 2nd revised edition (original edition published in 1880). Written as a sequel to the author's <i>Geographical Distribution of Animals</i> (1876).Freeman, 3865..

London: Macmillan and Co., 1895.. Second edition, reprint, 8vo, xx, 563, (1) pp. Three maps, one coloured, plus 23 further maps, diagrams and illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary red calf, gilt spine with a green label, slightly sunned, gilt arms of the City of London School to the upper cover, an excellent copy.

E-302. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, UK. 1880. Xvii, 526 pgs. Map. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1880, Wallace published the book Island Life as a sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals. It surveyed the distribution of both animal and plant species on islands. Wallace classified islands into oceanic and two types of continental islands. Oceanic islands, in his view, such as the Galapagos and Hawaiian Islands (then called Sandwich Islands) formed in mid-ocean and never part of any large continent. Such islands were characterised by a complete lack of terrestrial mammals and amphibians, and their inhabitants (except migratory birds and species introduced by humans) were typically the… Read More