the development of zoogeography

First edition, a handsomely bound set of this important work. With the bookplates of San Francisco businessman and University of California Regent James K. Moffit, Jr. (1865-1955).

'Wallace studied the fauna of the Malay peninsula and was struck both with its resemblances to and differences from that of South America. His studies resulted in this world-wide study, a pioneering work in zoogeography, and Wallace's most comprehensive monograph' (Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 2178).

First edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); colour folding map frontispiece to volume I, 6 other colour maps of which 2 are folding, and 20 engraved plates, errata list to volume I on the verso of the plate list and on a separate leaf in volume II, bookplate to each volume, contents spotted; early 20th century green half morocco with green pebble-grain cloth sides, spines gilt in compartments with bishop's mitre and crow tools, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bindings little rubbed at the extremities, a very good set; 503 & 607pp.

Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 2178.