NMLP P-035956 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise
Alfred Russel Wallace · Macmillan and Co. (London) · 1869
The true first edition was published in spring 1869 in two octavo volumes, bound in original gilt-stamped green cloth, with publisher's advertisements dated December 1868 bound into volume I. A reprint explicitly marked 'Second Edition' on the title page, also in two volumes, followed later the same year; genuine first-edition copies carry no edition statement on the title page
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035956 for "The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise" by Alfred Russel Wallace (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035956, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).