Resultados de búsqueda: the geographical distribution of animals with de alfred russel wallace

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2000-12-15. Paperback. Good.

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005-12-21. Paperback. Good.

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005-12-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Cambridge University Press, 2011-11-03. Paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Cambridge University Press, 2011-11-03. Paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Hafner Publishing Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. All the usual library markings. Slight bump to the top of the spine of volume 2. ; Ex-Library; 6 1/2x9 1/2; 503+607 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1. First edition. Cloth, rebound in unusually nice blue library buckram with branching patterns. Good. Ex-library marks to binding only; text block is entirely clean. Color fold-out world map has been repaired with archival tape along the first fold. 503pp. * 004701

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes in original brown cloth decorated in gilt, pp xxi, 503; viii, 607, with 2 pp. ads at rear of the second volume; 7 color lithographs maps (1 folding, 2 double-page) and 20 plates. Ex-library, with no external markings beyond slight evidence of labels removed from lower spines, but discard markings on half title and title pages. Moderate rubbing and general wear to boards on both volumes, Volume I with creasing to spine cloth and splitting of cloth along the front joint. Otherwise sound, internally clean, and complete. "Considered the nineteenth century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animals, Wallace carried out extensive fieldwork in areas as diverse as North and South America, Africa, China, India and Australia to document the habitats, breeding, migration and feeding behaviour of thousands of species around the world, and the influence of environmental conditions on their survival....… Leer más

WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a study of the relation of the living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes in the Earth's surface. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols., original pictorial gilt stamped green cloth, pp. [xxiv], 503; [xii], 607, [1] blank, [2] ads + 7 colored maps, 3 folding or double-page & 20 plates. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876.
First American Edition. Acquired from a private collection. An excellent copy of an important book by one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century. A foundational work of zoogeography. "To those more interested in facts, than in theories this book will serve as kind of a dictionary of the geography and affinities of animals. By means of the copious index, the native country, the systematic position, and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land-animal may be at once discovered..."-Wood, p. 617. With neat 1877 pencil… Leer más

E-302. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, UK. 1876. Xv 503 pages; viii 607 pages pgs. Illustrated with wood engraved plates and maps. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and seal present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Geographical Distribution of Animals, was published in 1876 and served as the definitive text on zoogeography for the next 80 years. The book included evidence from the fossil record to discuss the processes of evolution and migration that had led to the geographical distribution of modern species. For example, he discussed how fossil evidence showed that tapirs had originated in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating between North America and Eurasia and then, much more recently, to South America after which the northern… Leer más