The Natural History of Selborne. With Additions by Sir William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations,,,,,by Edward Jesse. With forty engravings.
by WHITE, GILBERT:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Henry G. Bohn, London, 1851, 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches), 416-pages. Contemporary full blue calf, sides ruled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in 5 compartments, raised bands with tan lettering piece, all edges marbled. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20017
- Title
- The Natural History of Selborne. With Additions by Sir William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations,,,,,by Edward Jesse. With forty engravings.
- Author
- WHITE, GILBERT:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn, London, 1851,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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- Gilt
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