1877 The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

Description

Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The sixth edition of this work. 

In the publisher's original green cloth, with a gilt stamp to the front board and spine. 

With an illustrated frontispiece, two folding coloured maps, seven engraved plates and numerous maps and in-text figures. Collated, complete. 

This book offers the fascinating scientific explorations of British naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, during his travels of the Malay Archipelago. 

Wallace documented thousands of specimens of which he recollects in this work, as well as detailed commentaries of the physical and human geography of the regions. 

With a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear.