Lot Details
Lot 88
[EVOLUTION] WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. The Geographical Distribution of Animals.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Two volumes, original brown cloth gilt. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; xxi, [3], 503, [1]; viii, [4], 607, [1] pp., including half-titles, with 2 pp. ads at rear of the second volume; 7 color lithographs maps (1 folding, 2 double-page) and 20 plates. Spine darkened with some wear; together with GALTON, FRANCIS. Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. London: MacMillan & Co., 1883. London: Macmillan, 1883. 20th century red cloth. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (21 x 13 cm); x1v, 388 pp., with an albumen print frontispiece and four plates, one folding. Rebound as noted; HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1863. First edition. 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (22 x 14 cm). Publisher's green cloth. Neatly recased retaining spine, no ads bound in.
Lot also includes a copy of Notes and Queries on Anthropology, London, 1874, with query No. 9 written by Charles Darwin; Romanes Mental Evolution in Animals, London, 1885; and Huxley Essays upon some controverted questions, London, 1892. (7)
C From the Collection of Quentin Keynes; Gift to his American doctor
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