Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology and biogeography of Australia

and biogeography of Australia

4 full page fine color plates

ISBN 0-691-03281-5 Limited Edition

Publisher Academic Press Publisher Place London Date Published 1988 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description A bright and clean copy in near fine condition

with the spine and front cover lettered in gilt

Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology and biogeography of AustraliaPp. xii, 492. Publishers original forest green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines at the top and bottom of the spine, the front and rear cloth covered boards have blind stamped vertical lines at the top, dark green endpapers, 8vo. This volume combines Natural Selection first published in 1870 with Tropical Nature first published in 1878 into a new edition with corrections first published in 1891. The front facing endpapers