WHITE (GILBERT) The Natural History of Selbourne, London, T. Bensley, 1789, 4to, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, additonal title, and 6 plates, one folding (some soiling and spotting to frontispiece, other occasional light spotting and staining, slight offsetting of plates), contemporary half calf (neatly rebacked, rubbed), bookplate of the 4th Earl of Egremont. [Lowndes 2898]
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WHITE (GILBERT) The Natural History of Selbourne, London, T. Bensley, 1789, 4to, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, additonal title, and 6 plates, one folding (some soiling and spotting to frontispiece, other occasional light spotting and staining, slight offsetting of plates), contemporary half calf (neatly rebacked, rubbed), bookplate of the 4th Earl of Egremont. [Lowndes 2898]
Lot Essay
Lowndes: 'An admirable and delightful specimen of topography, which ought to have a place among the household books of every English family.'