Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. Wallace, Alfred Russel. Biology,Darwin,Science

First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 526; 2 maps to text inc. frontis.; very good in contemporary three-quarter morocco by Tout, spine gilt, t.e.g., minor rubbing. In the Preface to his book, Wallace describes Island Life as "a popular supplement to and completion" of his earlier The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), though it is, he continues, "a complete work in itself". Wallace examines the variation of species using the evidence of islands to explain the probably causes of variation.