Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. The Geographical Distribution of Animals. 20 wood-engraved plates; 7 color maps. xxi, [3], 503, [1]; viii, [4], 607 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 223x151 mm, original green cloth gilt, moderate wear, Volume 1 hinges crudely reinforced; infrequent minor foxing not affecting plates or maps, slight separation at bottom of 2 folds in Volume 1 frontispiece map. Bookplates of Rev. W. T. Travis. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876

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first edition of a pioneering work on zoogeography. Garrison-Morton 145.6. Norman 2178.