With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.
First edition. Frontispiece, plates, text illustrations and an extending map. 8vo. Original blue cloth, somewhat dull and rubbed. Frontispiece loose, inner joint cracked. xvi, 403, 32pp. advertisements. London, John Murray, 1874.
With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Parkin.
Tipped in are three letters from Belts’s son, Anthony, to Parkin: the first dated April 30 1911; the second 21 November 1911, which remarks in part upon the small issue of this edition (fetching 50 then!); the third letter dated 10th August 1925 relating to the death of his mother.
