WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton . London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789. 4 o (250 x 183 mm). Errata leaf at end. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates, two folding (headline of plate III shaved, plate IV trimmed within platemark.) (Small ink marks on 3I4, some light offsetting of plates to text, a few minor marginal tears, some unobtrusive mostly marginal spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original spine, booksellers' descriptions pasted to pastedowns); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Susan ?Grifford (signature on pastedown) -- Edmund William Gosse (bookplate) -- Eardley Holland (signature on front free endpaper) -- purchased from Carnegie Book Shop, New York, 28 May 1958. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE, with page 292 misnumbered 262 and pages 441-442 omitted from the pagination. White is arguably the founder of popular natural history, admired by modern ornithologists, for one, as one of the first observers to record detailed notes of birds and their habitats. The Natural History consists of two series of letters, the first forty-four to Thomas Pennant and the final sixty-six to Daines Barrington; the Antiquities adds an additional twenty-six letters. Grolier English 62; Martin, pp.90-97; Rothschild 2550. FINE.
WHITE, Gilbert (1720-1793). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton . London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789. 4 o (250 x 183 mm). Errata leaf at end. Two engraved titles and seven engraved plates, two folding (headline of plate III shaved, plate IV trimmed within platemark.) (Small ink marks on 3I4, some light offsetting of plates to text, a few minor marginal tears, some unobtrusive mostly marginal spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original spine, booksellers' descriptions pasted to pastedowns); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Susan ?Grifford (signature on pastedown) -- Edmund William Gosse (bookplate) -- Eardley Holland (signature on front free endpaper) -- purchased from Carnegie Book Shop, New York, 28 May 1958. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE, with page 292 misnumbered 262 and pages 441-442 omitted from the pagination. White is arguably the founder of popular natural history, admired by modern ornithologists, for one, as one of the first observers to record detailed notes of birds and their habitats. The Natural History consists of two series of letters, the first forty-four to Thomas Pennant and the final sixty-six to Daines Barrington; the Antiquities adds an additional twenty-six letters. Grolier English 62; Martin, pp.90-97; Rothschild 2550. FINE.
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