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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Naturalist's Calendar by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. / with Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine, Bart, etc. / Edited, with further illustrations, a biographcal sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse, Esq. / With Forty Engravings

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Naturalist's Calendar by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. / with Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine, Bart, etc. / Edited, with further illustrations, a biographcal sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse, Esq. / With Forty Engravings

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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Naturalist's Calendar by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. / with Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine, Bart, etc. / Edited, with further illustrations, a biographcal sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse, Esq. / With Forty Engravings

by White, A.M., Rev. Gilbert

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London: George Bell and Sons, 1881. Bohn's Illustrated Library Edition. Embossed cloth. Very Good +/None. White & Jesse. 8vo, green elaborately blind-stamped decorated green publisher's cloth, illustrated with 40 engravings, supplemented with sundry additions including a biographical sketch by Sir William Jardine & Edward Jesse,16 pp. for Standard Works of George Bell & Sons + xxiv Biography of Rev. Gilbert White + 416 pages + 31 pp. of adverts. for Bohn's Library. An UNCOMMON impressively edited and illustrated Bohn edition of White's natural history classic in the original elaborately embossed publisher's cloth. Frontispiece and other handsome full page engravings are unfoxed and clean. Many gatherings unopened and pristine; backstrip slightly faded with a lightly repaired tears affecting the head of the spine & small white spot mid-spine. Reprints the 1895 Bell edition.

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Title
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Naturalist's Calendar by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. / with Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine, Bart, etc. / Edited, with further illustrations, a biographcal sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse, Esq. / With Forty Engravings
Author
White, A.M., Rev. Gilbert
Illustrator
White & Jesse
Format/Binding
Embossed cloth
Book Condition
Used - Very Good +
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None
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Edition
Bohn's Illustrated Library Edition
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Hardcover
Publisher
George Bell and Sons
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1881
Keywords
England, birds, country, illustrated, naturalist, 19th century, Natural history, ornithology, Darwin, classic, British, London

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