April 12, 2024
1833 Antique Book Natural History of Selborne & Naturalist's Calendar by G White
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The title page reads in part : "The Natural History of Selborne; Observations on Various Parts of Nature and The Naturalist's Calendar. By the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. With Notes by Capt. Thomas Brown. Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, by James Chambers, Edinburgh; W. Orr, London; and W. Curry, Jun. & Co. Dublin. MDCCCXXXIII." [1833]It is 8vo (6 1/2 X 4 1/2 inches); hardcover; half-calf on marble boards; edges worn; spine label chipped mostly off; raised bands on spine; boards rubbed & stained; boards starting to give but still secure; bookplate removed from inside front board; stain on lower edge of title, prelims ad first few pages; stain in lower inner corner throughout; minor scattered foxing throughout; text block tight; wear at top of spine with paper repair; 356 pages + plates.Illustrated with frontis plate of Selborne church [tissue guard], + 7 full-page plates (showing oak, hoopoe, domestic hen; partridge, waxwing, moose, etc...) and vignettes in text.Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist. He remained unmarried and a curate all his life. He is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This is presented as a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading
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