DARWINISM BY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 1901 AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

[WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL]. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with some of its Applications. London: Macmillan and Co., 1901.

FIFTH EDITION - AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (20 x 13 x 3.5 cm.); pp. xx, 494, [2] publisher's advertisements. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth; gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper cover; initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present; portrait frontispiece of the author; folding colour world map; 37 figures in the text; printed footnotes throughout; rear index in double columns. Printed by R. & R. Clark. Nicely inscribed in black ink verso front endpaper by Alfred Russel Wallace: "W. H. C. Curtis, With the kind regards of The Author. March 1903". Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Couple of trivial marks to covers. Minor bumping to spine ends. Light spotting to endpapers and page edges. Scarce thus.

Notes: A very rare presentation copy inscribed by Alfred Russel Wallace to W. H. C. Curtis. There is a record of correspondence between the two men held at The Natural History Museum [record number: WCP1355].