The natural history and antiquities of Selborne - Kindle edition by Gilbert White. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The natural history and antiquities of Selborne/5(10). WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: T. Bensley for B. White, Quarto, period-style full mottled brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, burgundy and brown morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First edition of this “solitary classic of natural history,” with folding frontispiece panoramic view of Selborne and six engravings . Gilbert White (–) published his Natural History and Antiquities as one volume in Both works consist of a series of letters written by White to the barrister Daines Barrington (–) and the zoologist Thomas Pennant (–).Cited by:
We visited the Gilbert White Museum in Selborne, Hampshire a few weeks ago and loved it. Gilbert White was one of the first great English naturalists who wrote this book years ago and yet it's still readable and enjoyable today. Would recommend to anyone who's interested in British flora and fauna. Gilbert White () published his Natural History and Antiquities as one volume in Both works consist of a series of letters written by White to the barrister Daines Barrington () and the zoologist Thomas Pennant (). The letters in Natural History, White's best. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, In the County of Southampton. To which is Added, the Naturalists s Calendar; Obervations on Various Parts of Nature and Poems. White, Rev. Gilbert.
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. White, Gilbert. London: Macmillan and Co, Quarto. Item # The Buckland edition. In two volumes, xxix, (3) pp. and vii, (3), pp. Extra-Illustrated with a series of wonderful illustrations: 25 mounted photographic images by the carbon process, 38 black and white engravings, 1 color frontispiece, 1 map of Selborne and 47 beautifully executed engravings on blue paper with tissue guards and several textual illustrations. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by English parson-naturalist Gilbert White (–). It was first published in by his brother Benjamin. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly editions up to WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: T. Bensley for B. White, Quarto, period-style full mottled brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, burgundy and brown morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First edition of this “solitary classic of natural history,” with folding frontispiece panoramic view of Selborne and six engravings (one folding) by Peter Mazell and Daniel Lerpinire after drawings by Samuel Grimm.
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