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George Routledge and Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 475 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Missing front free endpaper. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. Much heavier to text block edges, pastedowns, half title page and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White; The Earl of Cranbrook (Introduction); John Nash (Illustrations) - 1972
by Gilbert White; The Earl of Cranbrook (Introduction); John Nash (Illustrations)
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The Natural History of Selborne
by Gilbert White; The Earl of Cranbrook (Introduction); John Nash (Illustrations)
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Nash, John. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 276 pp., signed by John Nash, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A collection of letters written by naturalist Gilbert White (1720-1793), this volume details the plant and animal life in the region around Selborne, the parish in which White lived and worked as a cleric; the letters were written to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, naturalists and friends of White. The book describes the natural world of eighteenth-century England in a scientific and accessible way.
Illustrating this volume is John Nash (1897-1977), a British painter and botanical artist, who renders the gentle landscapes and animals in the text with clarity and simple beauty.
___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown leather with green paper boards with an allover pattern in white drawn by John Nash, gilt lettering on the spine, top edge stained green, tan endpapers, title page with line drawing in black by Nash, black-and-white and colour line drawings by Nash throughout; monotype Baskerville, Abbey Mills cream-toned eggshell paper, quarto size (11.75" by 8.75"), pagination: [1-4] 5-275 [1 colophon], one of 1500 copies, this number 351, signed by John Nash on the colophon. With announcement, one sheet, and LEC Monthly Newsletter, one sheet folded once to make four pages, with a horizontal crease for mailing. In a glassine wrapper, housed in a slipcase covered in green paper with same allover pattern in white, with cream paper spine label with black lettering and rules.
___CONDITION: A fine copy, the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, as new. The announcement and Monthly Newsletter are fine, clean, without wear. The glassine wrapper is fine, clean, with very light edge wear at the corners and tail of the spine, and a shallow crease to the front panel, else fine. The slipcase is fine, strong and sturdy, clean, without wear but for light rubbing to the bottom edge.
___CITATION: LEC Bibliography no. 449.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Illustrating this volume is John Nash (1897-1977), a British painter and botanical artist, who renders the gentle landscapes and animals in the text with clarity and simple beauty.
___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown leather with green paper boards with an allover pattern in white drawn by John Nash, gilt lettering on the spine, top edge stained green, tan endpapers, title page with line drawing in black by Nash, black-and-white and colour line drawings by Nash throughout; monotype Baskerville, Abbey Mills cream-toned eggshell paper, quarto size (11.75" by 8.75"), pagination: [1-4] 5-275 [1 colophon], one of 1500 copies, this number 351, signed by John Nash on the colophon. With announcement, one sheet, and LEC Monthly Newsletter, one sheet folded once to make four pages, with a horizontal crease for mailing. In a glassine wrapper, housed in a slipcase covered in green paper with same allover pattern in white, with cream paper spine label with black lettering and rules.
___CONDITION: A fine copy, the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, as new. The announcement and Monthly Newsletter are fine, clean, without wear. The glassine wrapper is fine, clean, with very light edge wear at the corners and tail of the spine, and a shallow crease to the front panel, else fine. The slipcase is fine, strong and sturdy, clean, without wear but for light rubbing to the bottom edge.
___CITATION: LEC Bibliography no. 449.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
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- Edition Limited Edition
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- Publisher The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1972
- Keywords Illustrators - John Nash, Limited Editions Club, LEC, Natural History, Animals, Flora, Landscape, Wildlife
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
by The Late Rev. Gilbert White
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The Natural History of Selborne. Vol. 1
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London Paris & Melbourne: Cassells National Library Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Some light foxing to end pages.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback.
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The Natural History of Selborne; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's Calendar Fifth Edition
by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, edited by Captain Thomas Brown
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London: Thomas Tegg & Son, R. Griffin & Co.. Loosely bound, original brown card boards, cloth spine, tear down most of the rear external hinge split with back board nearly detached, general handling wear with browning and rubbing on the title label on the spine. . Fair. Hardcover. 1835.
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.
by White (Rev. Gilbert White, The Standard Edition by T.E. Bennett, Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting.).:
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London. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd. no date circa 1890.. 8vo. red cloth. gilt letters. inner hinge cracked. binding has a little play in it. illustrated with the engravings of Thomas Bewick and others. BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY. HAMPSHIRE. SELBORNE. NATURAL HISTORY. GILBERT WHITE. STOCK
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The Natural History of Selborne and The Naturalist's Calendar
by The Rev. Gilbert White , Edited with Notes By G. Christopher Davies
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London: Frederick Warne & Co Undated Circa 1896 (Isabella Shepherd Islington School Bookplate 1896)......Marbled endpapers and fore edges.....New spine & label.......POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY) .....Please e-mail for further details. Isabella Shepherd Islington School Bookplate 1896. New Edition. Full-Leather (Maroon). VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated with Many Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.
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The Natural History of Selborne, and The Naturalist's Calendar;
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London, Warne, nd ( c 1880's?). A New Edition, Edited, with Notes by G. Christopher Davies; Hbk; Good+/ No Dj; 470pp with lovely Illustrations throughout plus 6pp Publishers Catalogue, Black endpapers; Black covers with paper title label on spine. .
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton
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Bickers & Son, 1884. Hardcover. Good. 1884. Third Edition. 568 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine.
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne with Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar;
by White, The Late Rev. Gilbert . Illustrated. (Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books series)
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London, Geo. Roulledge & Sons, nd ( c 1850's?);. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books series. Hardback. Good+ condition. Edited with Notes by Sir William Jardine. xxviii, 475pp with illustrated half title numberous delightful illustrations. Marbled endpapers. Original red half leather covers with gilt decoration & title on spine and five raised bands. Edges rubbed. Top edge gilt. A very nice clean copy of a very hard to find edition. .
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert (From the Library of John Greenleaf Whittier)
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London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. Gift inscription to John Greenleaf Whittier from E.C.P. on half title page. Bookplate "From the Library of John Greenleaf Whittier Amesbury, Mass. Sale authorized by Samuel T. Pikard. Jan., 1903, Literary Executor" front pastedown. Whittier (Dec. 17, 1807 - Sept 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist. A very good copy bound in original green cloth with spine rebacked and original spine laid down, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration front cover, top edge gilt. vi, 430 pp.
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and The Naturalist's Calendar
by The Late Rev Gilbert White; Sir William Jardine [ed.]
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London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated . Bright new edition of Gilbert White's study of the natural history of Selborne. New edition of this popular work by Gilbert White, originally published in 1789 under the title The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, this edition edited by Sir William Jardine.An illustrated volume comprising the natural history of Selborne, English village in Hampshire. Gilbert White is considered to be the first ecologist or environmentalist; most of his observations are pertinent, while others are interestingly odd. He was however the first to discover that swifts mate on the wing. His methods differed from earlier ones as instead of studying dead specimens, White observed live animals in their habitats over many years, creating a new kind of zoology, scientific, precise, and based on accumulation of detail. An important book, this volume was mentioned by Charles Darwin when asked what works had deeply impressed him. With…
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