Tropical Nature, and Other Essays. WALLACE, Alfred Russel.

First edition, in which Wallace describes the essential differences between tropical and temperate climates. It is drawn from 12 years of fieldwork in both the western and eastern tropics and contains sections on climate, animals, and plants. Wallace Online S719. Octavo. Diagrams within text. With 1 p. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine and covers ruled in black, brown endpapers, edges untrimmed, booksellers ticket of Hatchards, Piccadilly to front pastedown. Spine toned and cocked, ends and corners bumped and a little worn, a few faint marks to covers but cloth otherwise bright, endpapers foxed, contents sporadically so: a very good copy.