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Wallace, Alfred Russel.
Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1892
Stock Code: 14541
Second Edition. Octavo, pp., xx, 563, with three colour-printed maps, and further maps and illustrations within text, as called for. Publisher’s textured green cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, titled in gilt to spine. Bookplate of Adam Gowans Whyte (1875–1950) to front paste-down. Minor shelf wear to extremities, spine slightly darkened, top edge dusty. Contents neat. A very good copy. Adam Gowans Whyte was a journalist and founder of the Rationalist Press Association. With annotations to the first 50 pages or so, presumably in Whyte’s hand. £200.00