[WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL]. The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898.
New edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (20cm x 13cm x 3.5cm.). Pp. xvii, 515. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper cover. Coated endpapers. Half-title present. Frontispiece and title-page vignette. 10 maps - 2 of which fold-out and have some coloured sections. 52 illustrations throughout, many full-page. Tables in the text. Appendix and index to rear. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact. Covers very clean. Minor bumping to spine ends. Interior largely fresh and clean with some light spotting to fore edge. Two previous owner names neatly inked to half-title page. A excellent copy.