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WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: T. Bensley, 1789.
4° (251 x 190mm). With errata, two titles with engraved vignettes and seven engraved plates including the large folding frontispiece mounted on linen and another folding plate. (Margins of plates lightly spotted and few other scattered spots.) Red morocco decorated in gilt by R. de Coverly, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges. Provenanace: S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel) -- A. H. Bright (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION. White is arguably the founder of popular natural history and is admired by modern ornithologists as one of the first observers to record detailed notes of birds and their habitats. With page 292 numbered 262, and pages 441-442 omitted from the pagination. Grolier English, 62; Rothschild 2550.
4° (251 x 190mm). With errata, two titles with engraved vignettes and seven engraved plates including the large folding frontispiece mounted on linen and another folding plate. (Margins of plates lightly spotted and few other scattered spots.) Red morocco decorated in gilt by R. de Coverly, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges. Provenanace: S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel) -- A. H. Bright (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION. White is arguably the founder of popular natural history and is admired by modern ornithologists as one of the first observers to record detailed notes of birds and their habitats. With page 292 numbered 262, and pages 441-442 omitted from the pagination. Grolier English, 62; Rothschild 2550.
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