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The Natural History of Selborne [2 vols]

Name: The Natural History of Selborne [2 vols]
Author: Gilbert White

Book Description

"A New Edition, With Engravings". Original boards rubbed, and worn at corners; spines cracked, with loss. Vol.1 split at p.viii though cords holding well. Original spine labels very worn, but just legible; some pages dusty at edges, with minor foxing. Damp stains to final few leaves and rear cover of vol. 1 but overall contents nice and clean. With four illustrations (as called for), all bound together after the ‘Advertisement’ in vol.1; two, including the **hand-coloured** “A Hybrid-Bird”, are normally found as frontispieces, the other two bound within the texts.

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Written in the form of a series of letters, it describes the natural world around a small Hampshire village, gives a view into pre-industrial England, and presages the field of ecology. Includes “The Naturalist’s Calendar as kept at Selborne … and Catsfield …” which White compiled with William Markwick; his “Observations of Various Parts on Nature” on the timing of nature’s seasonal-cycles; and a selection of his poetry.
Bookplates of Simon Thomas Scrope of Danby Hall in Yorkshire, a local magistrate and retired Major of Volunteers; and an October, 1823 dated signatures of “C.D. Scrope”, presumably his aunt Catherine Dorothy Scrope, who would have turned 31 that month.

Author Gilbert White

Date 1822

Binding Publishers' original boards.

Publisher London: J. and A. Arch [et al]

Condition Very good

Pages 351 & 363

Price: £155.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

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