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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Collection of Martin Copley AM
• Sale Date:
  22 Oct 2017 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  113
• Lot Description:
  WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago. The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise
  A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London, 1869. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding coloured maps, 8 plates, and text maps and illustrations; original gilt-decorated cloth (hinges of the first volume slightly weakened).
• Notes:
  First edition, a very good, clean set of one of the finest scientific travel books ever written, an account of eight years observing and collecting in every important island of the region, from 1854 to 1862: in New Guinea Wallace was one of the first Europeans to set up a residence. ‘The Malay Archipelago provided the ideal geographical setting for species distribution studies, not only as an end in themselves, but as evidence critical to elucidation of the evolutionary process’-- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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