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Condition: Very Good. 21 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 21cms. Category: Northern History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

paperback. Condition: Very good. Bound in publisher's original light brown wraps. Worn at extremities. The interior is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. First edition, first impression. Two volumes. Wallace was far more than Darwin's celebrated contemporary. Explorer, collector, geographer and naturalist, he independently conceived the principle of evolution by natural selection during eight years in the Malay Archipelago, from 1854 to 1862. His 1858 essay, sent to Darwin from Ternate, led to the joint presentation of their ideas at the Linnean Society. He became the founding figure of biogeography: the "Wallace Line", which marks the sharp transition between Asian and Australasian animal life, remains one of the most vivid concepts in natural history. The Malay Archipelago is the great literary and scientific culmination of that experience. Across some 14,000 miles and roughly seventy expeditions, Wallace assembled more than 125,000 natural-history specimens, including over a thousand new species. He made this remarkable book from those journeys: at once travel narrative, ethnography, zoology and a field record of evolutionary thought. Its pages contain orang-utans, birds of paradise, insects, peoples, forests, volcanoes and islands, described with the close observational power of a scientist who was also an exceptional writer. The printed dedication to Charles Darwin is particularly moving. Wallace offers the work both as a token of personal esteem and friendship and as an expression of his admiration for Darwin's genius. It records one of science's great intellectual friendships, while asserting Wallace's immense, independent contribution to the understanding of life. The original boards, richly patinated with age, have been retained and carefully conserved. The volumes have been expertly rebacked in closely matched calf, the new spines raised on bands, finished with red and green morocco labels and gilt tooling in a sympathetic nineteenth-century style. Each board is completed with a discreet contemporary gilt and black onlaid orang-utan device, drawn from the original publisher's binding and the title-page design, creating a thoughtful homage to the work's original visual language. Marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins. Thomas Baines, Walter Hood Fitch, John Gerrard Keulemans, E. W. Robinson, Joseph Wolf and T. W. Wood. (illustrator).…

Condition: Poor. Volume 1-4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Complete. Large 8vo. Original red cloth with ornate gilt design and lettering on front board, mirrored on back board in blind. Gilt lettering and elaborate gilt illustration on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and minor fraying to vols III and IV. Front board has detached from Vol I. Page block of vol I. and IV detached. Vol II. has a couple of splits down joints. Split hinges. Pages are secure and clean save for some foxing. Each volume contains a few plates, many with tissue guards. Gilt edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,9750grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Poor. Volume 1-4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Large red cloth 8vo with bevelled edges and intricate gilt design on front board, mirrored in blind on back. Decorative gilt design, gilt borders and gilt lettering on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners, some fraying and general wear. Large sections of backstrip missing, half of volume 2s backstrip missing. Backstrip of vols 2 and 4 semi detached. Boards loose. Vols 2 and 4 have a detached board. Vol 1s front board and backstrip has come away from page block. Black end papers. Pages are secure and clear of markings save for a fair amount of foxing. Gilt edges. Contains several plates with tissue guards, some of which are detached and creased. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,10100grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy buckram cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 10½'' x 8''. Contains frontispiece, (x), 228 pp followed by 44 plates. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Egypt].…