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Alfred Russel Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1920 -

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Mar. 07, 2024
South America.- Wallace (Alfred Russel) A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, first edition, 1853
Est: £200 - £300
South America.- Wallace (Alfred Russel) A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, first edition, linen-backed colour lithograph frontispiece, 8 linen-backed lithographs, lacking folding letterpress table of vocabulary and advertisements at end, ex-Manchester Subscription Library with occasional discreet ink-stamps, faint abrasion mark to title, occasional faint marginal finger-soiling, one or two marginal pencil marks, new endpapers, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1853. *** A scarce first edition of Wallace's earliest work, which made his reputation. This work is all the more remarkable given that the majority of Wallace's notes and drawings from this expedition were lost in a cargo fire whilst returning to England.
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Sep. 21, 2023
World.- Wallace (Alfred Russel) The Malay Archipelago, 2 vol., second edition, 1869; and 16 others (18)
Est: £150 - £200
NO RESERVE World.- Wallace (Alfred Russel) The Malay Archipelago, 2 vol., second edition, plates and illustrations, maps, some folding, publisher's advertisements to rear vol. 2, repairs to hinges, original pictorial cloth, recased, small repairs to spine heads, feet and corners rubbed, 1869 § Alexander (Boyd) From the Niger to the Nile, 2 vol., photographic plates and illustrations, fold maps, vol. 1 frontispiece coming loose, original cloth, spines toned and a little soiled, spine ends bumped, 1908 § Williamson (J.W.) In a Persian Oil Field, photographic plates, map to front pastedown with ?later hand-colouring, slip tipped-in to front endpaper, occasional light foxing, original cloth, spine ends a little torn, 1927; and 13 others travel, v.s. (18)
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Oct. 31, 2019
Wallace (Alfred Russel) Island Life, first edition, original cloth,1880.
Est: £200 - £300
Wallace (Alfred Russel) Island Life, first edition, half-title, 3 maps, one hand-coloured, illustrations and maps in text, advertisement leaf at end, occasional spotting, hinges weak, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1880. ⁂ Sequel to the author's Geographical Distribution of Animals, 1876, both ground-breaking works of zoogeography.
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