[Natural History]. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface. London: MacMillan, 1876.
2 volumes, large 8vo. 20 wood-engraved plates, 7 color-printed maps (most double-page). Original dark olive cloth gilt, unopened (splitting to rear joint of vol.1, light rubbing to fore-corners and joints, hinges starting). Provenance: K.E.H. (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The Geographical Distribution of Animals "established evolutionary zoogeography on its modern foundation... [and] few, if any, subsequent works have been more important to the subject" (DSB). Wood, p.617.
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