Wallace, Alfred Russel (1813-1923)
The Malay Archipelago.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1869.

First edition, two octavo volumes, each with half-titles, illustrated with a frontispiece and title vignette in each volume, two folding plates and eight full page illustrations, with fifty-two pages of advertisements dated December 1868 bound at the end of the first volume; bound in half red morocco and marbled paper boards, 7 1/4 x 5 in. (2)

"On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, [The Malay Archipelago] is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written." (DSB). Wallace dedicates his work to Darwin.