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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.
London: Macmillan And Co., 1880. First edition. Tall 8vo., original green cloth with a small circular gilt decoration on the upper cover, (xx), (1)-526, (2)pp.ads. With 3 full page maps, with illustrations and in the text. Bookplate, some foxing throughout, blindstamp on the titlepage, some light rubbing but otherwise a near fine copy.
"Mr. Wallace has entitled himself to be called the father of the new science of zoological geography, showing that we have in the present distribution of living things over the earth's surface a key to the problem of the most ancient relations of land and water... For this, study islands possess, as he points out, special advantages, since they have a restricted area and definite boundaries, and their geographical and geological limits as a rule, coincide..."