WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . London: T. Bensley, 1789. 4° (254 x 196mm). With errata. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates including the folding frontispiece. (Plates lightly spotted.) Full calf by Bedford, with his stamp, spine gilt in compartments with bird tools, yellow edges (extremities lightly rubbed and sides lightly scuffed). Provenance : Edward George Hibbert (bookplate and inscription on front blank) -- R.D. Steedman, Bookseller (small label).
WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . London: T. Bensley, 1789. 4° (254 x 196mm). With errata. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates including the folding frontispiece. (Plates lightly spotted.) Full calf by Bedford, with his stamp, spine gilt in compartments with bird tools, yellow edges (extremities lightly rubbed and sides lightly scuffed). Provenance : Edward George Hibbert (bookplate and inscription on front blank) -- R.D. Steedman, Bookseller (small label). FIRST EDITION, HANDSOMELY BOUND BY BEDFORD. 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.
WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . London: T. Bensley, 1789. 4° (254 x 196mm). With errata. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates including the folding frontispiece. (Plates lightly spotted.) Full calf by Bedford, with his stamp, spine gilt in compartments with bird tools, yellow edges (extremities lightly rubbed and sides lightly scuffed). Provenance : Edward George Hibbert (bookplate and inscription on front blank) -- R.D. Steedman, Bookseller (small label).
WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . London: T. Bensley, 1789. 4° (254 x 196mm). With errata. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates including the folding frontispiece. (Plates lightly spotted.) Full calf by Bedford, with his stamp, spine gilt in compartments with bird tools, yellow edges (extremities lightly rubbed and sides lightly scuffed). Provenance : Edward George Hibbert (bookplate and inscription on front blank) -- R.D. Steedman, Bookseller (small label). FIRST EDITION, HANDSOMELY BOUND BY BEDFORD. 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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