Keane a H Appendix (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. From an enormous collection which belonged to a deceased ex-customer of ours for over 40 years. A retired civil servant with an academic interest in philosophy and history of science, particularly Victorian around the generation of Darwinism. Hundreds of books in these genres being catalogued and shelved daily. Cloth hardcover with gilded pictorial front board and spine, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. With illustrations and several fold out maps (neaty reinforced with white tape in some areas). Boards are slightly scuffed and marked. Spine is sunned and a little cocked. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, with small tears at the spine ends. Page block is tanned and blemished. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing on the endpapers, and spots of foxing and the occasional mark on a few of the pages which are otherwise clear. Hinge and gutter breaks noted, however binding remains sound. LW. Used.…

Boards. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, original pictorial cloth boards with gilt decoration, b&w frontis, large colour folding map frontispiece, colour folding maps (including map of Western Australia), b&w illus, pp 672 plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Corners bumped. Head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. The folding frontispiece map has been previously taped to the corners and folds. The rest of the book is in very good condition. Uncommon. A comprehensive study of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific islands, by the pioneering naturalist Alfed Russel Wallace author of "The Malay Archipelago" and a friend of Charles Darwin. In the original publisher's ornate green and gold binding, and extensively illustrated. From the publisher's series "Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel based on Hellwald's 'Die Erde und Ihre Völker'" (title page). A very nice copy. Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane (illustrator).…