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Wallace (Alfred Russel). Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Volume IV, number 16, Zoology, London: Longman, Green, Longmans and Roberts and Williams and Norgate, 1860, pp. 145-189, in which On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago, by Alfred R. Wallace Communicated by Charles Darwin Esq., pp. 172-184, partly unopened, original wrappers, some fading, 8v0, together with Darwinism. An exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, portrait frontispiece, folding map, wood-engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at rear, light spotting to half-title and endpapers, contemporary owner inscription of Rothsay Stewart, 1889 to half-title, original green cloth, spine darkened, tear at head of spine, 8vo, plus The Wonderful Century, its successes and its failures, 1st edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1898, portrait frontispiece, 12 folding graphs at end, a little light soiling front and rear, bookplate of John Jackson Coates, his signature, original green cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, with 2 others: Man's Place in the Universe, 1st edition, 1903, and The Malay Archipelago, new edition, 1898 (Quantity: 5)