WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne [edited by J.E. Harting], London, Bickers and Son, 1880, 8°, wood-engraved illustrations after Thomas Bewick and others, original pictorial cloth, gilt (extremities rubbed), g.e. -- [NEWTON, Alfred.] Gilbert White of Selbourne, [Cambridge], "Private reprint of a proof as revised by the Author for the Dictionary of National Biography," 1899, 8°, inscribed on title: "W.C.R. Butterfield from the author," and additionally inscribed by Ruskin Butterfield to Thomas Parkin, whose own inscription states: "The corrections are from a second copy in Mr. Butterfield's possession, in the handwriting of the author", and a 3pp. a.l.s. by Newton to Parkin, dated Magdelen College, Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1900, enthusing about the writing of John Wolley on egg-collecting, and some penguin eggs "obtained during the French Antarctic Expedition about 1838", bound with a catalogued of The Gilbert White Exhibition, organised by the Selborne Society in 1912, contemporary half morocco (heavily rubbed); and 24 other editions of White's Natural History in 27 vols. (29)

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WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne [edited by J.E. Harting], London, Bickers and Son, 1880, 8°, wood-engraved illustrations after Thomas Bewick and others, original pictorial cloth, gilt (extremities rubbed), g.e. -- [NEWTON, Alfred.] Gilbert White of Selbourne, [Cambridge], "Private reprint of a proof as revised by the Author for the Dictionary of National Biography," 1899, 8°, inscribed on title: "W.C.R. Butterfield from the author," and additionally inscribed by Ruskin Butterfield to Thomas Parkin, whose own inscription states: "The corrections are from a second copy in Mr. Butterfield's possession, in the handwriting of the author", and a 3pp. a.l.s. by Newton to Parkin, dated Magdelen College, Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1900, enthusing about the writing of John Wolley on egg-collecting, and some penguin eggs "obtained during the French Antarctic Expedition about 1838", bound with a catalogued of The Gilbert White Exhibition, organised by the Selborne Society in 1912, contemporary half morocco (heavily rubbed); and 24 other editions of White's Natural History in 27 vols. (29)

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Provenance: I. Henry Ramsay Munro (bookplate); II.W. RUSKIN BUTTERFIELD (OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION ON TITLE); THOMAS PARKIN (OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER).

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