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Verlag: Dover, 1972
ISBN 10: 0486228037ISBN 13: 9780486228037
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Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1108007295ISBN 13: 9781108007290
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This 1853 publication documents Alfred R. Wallace's impressively detailed observations of the then largely unknown Amazon region.
Verlag: Time Life, 1986
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
Facsimile Reprint of 1853 Ed. viii + 541pp. + [i]. Colour frontis., map, several ills. Bookplate and prospectus loosely inserted, from the library of Ann Savours Shirley, marbled e.ps., gilt lettered simulated leather, a.e.g. US$35.
Verlag: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. First Edition. Scarce in any condition. Backstrip beginning to peel away, binding shaken but intact. General shelf wear. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings.
Verlag: London: Reeve and Co., 1853, 1853
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, in the first issue binding, of Wallace's account of the famous expedition to the Amazon basin jointly undertaken with Henry Walter Bates. There were 750 copies of the first edition printed, of which 250 were reissued in a remainder binding of green cloth. Inspired by William Henry Edwards's Voyage up the River Amazon (1847), Wallace and Bates set off for the Amazon in 1848. "Apart from meeting their immediate goal of earning a living through natural history collecting, Wallace and Bates had a broader purpose for travelling to the Amazon: solving the mystery of the causes of organic evolution. [Wallace] had not been a convert to biological evolution until he read Robert Chambers's controversial, anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation about 1845, the year it was published. That one might demonstrate the fact of evolution through a detailed tracing out of individual phylogenies over time and space was apparent to him early on, and the Amazon was to afford a natural laboratory to this end" (ODNB). Wallace published the present work and Bates The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863). Wallace followed this expedition with a trip to the Malay Archipelago. Written while collecting in Sarawak, his 1855 paper "On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species" was noticed by Charles Lyell, who in turn drew it to Charles Darwin's attention. The result was the landmark joint presentation of Wallace's and Darwin's findings on natural selection at the Linnean Society in 1858. Provenance: with the engraved armorial bookplate of the American botanist Frances Louise Jewett (b. 1906) on the front pastedown. Jewett graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. and M.A. in Botany in 1928 and 1930 respectively. She subsequently became a laboratory assistant and instructor in botany at Wellesley, and published several pieces within the field, including on tobacco's resistance to fungus in the Botanical Gazette (1938) and the popular work Plant Hunters (1958), co-authored with Clare L. McCausland. Not in Howgego; Borba de Moraes II, p. 933; Speake III, pp. 1263-5; Wallace Online S714. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine and boards decoratively blocked in blind, pale yellow endpapers, Westleys & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, full-page map, folding table, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Early ink ownership signature of one F. B. Portman on front pastedown. Cloth notably fresh, expertly recased and restored at spine ends, joints, and inner hinges, corners gently bumped, contents generally clean and evenly toned, a handful of leaves foxed, pp. 18-19 browned from bookmarker sometime laid in, 4 cm closed tear at stub of folding map, loss at lower outer corner of rear free endpaper resulting from tear. A well-preserved copy in the original cloth.
Verlag: Ward, Lock and Co, 1889
Anbieter: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: GOOD. 1889. Ward, Lock and Co. Hardcover. GOOD Black titles, green boards. Pages are detached from boards and spine but all are present. Boards and spine are marked and worn. Spine is foxed. Previous owners name. Foxing and marks throughout. Some page corners are creased and bent. Beautiful illustrations, although some are affected by foxing. 7x5.
Verlag: Ward lock and Co
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good hardcover ex-library copy, rebound in green buckram without dustjacket. Usual stamps and stickers, otherwise contents are generally clean and unmarked.
Verlag: Ward lock and Co, 1889
Anbieter: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, Vereinigtes Königreich
HARDCOVER. Zustand: GOOD. 1889. Ward lock and Co. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Previous owners name.