First German edition, pubished in the same year as the first English edition

Wallace, A. R.

Die geographische Verbreitung der Thiere, nebst einer Studie über die Verwandtschaften des lebenden und ausgestorbenen Faunen in Ihrer Beziehung zu den früheren Veränderungen der Erdoberfläche.

Published 1876
Item ID 71100
€780.00

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Dresden, R. v. Zahn, 1876. Two volumes. 8vo (21.3 x 13.8 cm). Double title pages (for the work, and for the two volumes); 1266 pp. [xxix, 579; viii, 658]; seven [5; 2] full-colour maps (several folded), 20 [13; 7] wood-engraved plates. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on spines.

Rare first German edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Wood: "To those more interested in facts than in theories, this book will serve as a kind of dictionary of the geography and affinities of animals. By means 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, - information (until the publication of the author's monograph) scattered through hundreds of other volumes". The German translation is by the medical doctor, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840-1911) and includes an additional preface. Meyer was director of the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Dresden. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, hinges a trifle weak, the large, first, folded map with a few small tears in the folds; small, unobtrusive private owner's stamp, as well as a different, older signature on the second titles, the same stamp in the front free endpapers top margin, tiny damp stain to the top margin of a few leaves; otherwise very good, clean and complete. Another book dealer claims the presence of 27 plates but that must be an error (being the complete number of plates and maps). A very good set. Nissen ZBI, 4331; Wood, p. 617.

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