Insulinde: Het land van den Orang-Oetan en den Paradijsvogel

Alfred Russel Wallace. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien door Prof. P.J. Veth. [2 volumes]. Amsterdam. P.N. Van Kampen. 1870-'71. Large 8vo, 2 volumes, half leather, boards covered with cloth. Title pasted on spine with gilt stamping, front boards with image of native warrior (Papua) in gilt stamping. XXIV,528 and VIII,552,(2) pp. + register. 2 frontispieces, 2 title vignettes, 10 full-page plates and numerous text illustrations after woodcuts by T.W. Wood, Keulemans, Baines, Robinson, Fitch; a full-page coloured map after Wallace and Melvil by Carnbee. Large coloured, folded and folding map after Wallace and Allen in lithography by P.W.M. Trap.

The famous work by naturalist Wallace, here for the first time translated into Dutch by P.J. Veth. This edition is important due to the extensive additional annotations by Veth. Rebound, new endpapers. Here and there light browning, bindings with light traces of use, else very good copies (total 2).