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Wallace, Alfred Russel
Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of its Applications
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1889
Stock Code: 12334
Second Edition, published in the same year as the First. Octavo, pp. xvi, 494. Photographic portrait frontispiece of the Author with facsimile signature below and thick tissue guard, large fold-out map of the World, and 37 figures within text. Brown half morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper-covered boards with matching endpapers and all edges marbled. Edges rubbed and spine lightly sunned. Tidy ownership inscription in ink to verso ffep; scattered light foxing, almost exclusively to tissue guard and adjacent leaves. A very good copy. Wallace (1823-1913) independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection after extensive fieldwork, and in this work he explains and defends Darwin’s theories on the subject. A naturalist, explorer, biologist, illustrator and polymath, Wallace was one of the first prominent scientists to raise concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment. £60.00