ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE: LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO Edited and annotated with an introduction by John Van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker. Foreword by David Attenborough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2013). First edition, first printing. "First edition published in 2013" and "Impression I" to the copyright page. Illustrated with twenty color plates and with twenty-six figures. The very detailed and revealing letters written from 1854 through 1862 while on a journey to observe and collect wildlife from Singapore, through the islands of Indonesia, and to New Guinea, are both scientific and candidly reflective, spawning the theory of evolution by natural selection. Includes newly discovered letters and the influential correspondence to Darwin. Lightly crimped to the upper and lower spine edges, else very nearly fine in blue linen boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, blue end-papers, silver-and-blue headband and tail-band; in a very nearly fine dust jacket; original printed 16.99 RRP and $29.95 USA prices still intact to the rear panel. Octavo; 319 pages; appendixes; bibliography; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!