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Wallace (Alfred Russel). The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, half-title to each volume, 20 wood-engraved plates, 7 chromolithographic maps (some folding), errata leaf to volume 2, occasional spotting, volume 1 quire K misbound in order K3-4 1-2 7-8 5-6, top edges gilt, original dark green pebble-grain cloth gilt, rubbing to joints, corners bumped, a few pale marks, volume 1 with small section of wear to front joint, volume 2 headcap nicked, 8vo (Qty: 2) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: 1) Thomas William Daltry (1832-1904), clergyman and amateur naturalist (bookplates, 'The Daltry Library, Stoke on Trent 1904'); 2) Alexander Morison McAldowie (1852-1926), Scottish-born physician and author of The Birds of Staffordshire (1893) (his large bookplates to front pastedowns and ink-stamps to title-pages and volume 2 p. 3). Freeman 3863; Garrison-Morton 145.60; Norman 2178. 'A pioneering work in zoogeography, and Wallace's most comprehensive monograph' (Norman). One of two binding variants: some copies are bound in fine-diaper cloth, with no priority assigned.