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Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Newcastle, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise.
Alfred Russel Wallace. London, Macmillian, 1869. First Edition, Fine Condition. Two volumes, 8Vo. Publisher's original green cloth, the spine and covers with decorative gilt. Pages: xxiii, 478, [2], 51, [1]. Vol 2, [4], 524.
Consisting of: two frontispiece, six engraved plates, nine maps (2 folded), forty three illustrations in the text body, fifty four pages of advertisements with the early date of Dec. 1868.
The covers are in Fine condition. The gilt is bright and not showing any wear. The only shelf wear is the bottom cover of volume one shows the slightest bit of scuffing from being pulled from a shelf. Both volumes front endpapers have the interesting bookplates of Robert Blagden Hale and Hale Aderley.
The text block is a "Fine minus" because of the following: The title page of volume one has a spot of off-setting from the tissue guard (see photo). Page 20 upper left side has a faint finger smudge. Page 49 has a short annotation in pencil dated 1-16-75. Otherwise the text is clean, bright, tight and without any other markings.
This is a very attractive copy with the early advertisement date and scarce in this condition.
It's best summed up by Howgego page 625: "His Malay Archipelago is regarded as the most celebrated of all writings on Indonesia and ranks with a small handful of other works as one of the nineteenth century's best scientific travel books."
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- Bookseller
- Rachel Smith Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- m114
- Title
- Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's original green cloth, with letters in gilt and decorative covers in gilt.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, two volumes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1869
- Size
- Octavos
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Malay, natural selection, Darwin
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Rachel Smith Books
Biblio member since 2014
Newcastle, Maine
About Rachel Smith Books
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