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The Natural History of Selborne. To which are added, The Naturalist’s Calendar, Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. A New Edition, With Engravings. In Two Volumes.
by WHITE, GILBERT:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Printed for C & J. Rivington, J & A. Arch, Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown Green, Harding Triphook &c &c... 1825. Hardbacks. 2 vols. 9 x 5.5 inches. Quarter bound calf leather, with marbled boards page edges and endpapers. Red and Green leather spine labels lettered in gilt, with raised banding and extensive gilt decoration to spines. Gilt line details to boards. In very good conditions. Corners slightly bumped, edges rubbed, some light rubbing to boards, some rubbing to edges of spines. Bookplates to endpapers “Thomas Evans.” some darkening and mild foxing to endpapers and title pages, main title page darkened opposite frontis plate. Engraved plates are foxed and darkened. Some mild foxing to inside pages, stain to p10-11 vol.2., else pages clean and tight. 351 + 364pp. Illustrated with 3 b&w steel engraved plates.
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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78783
- Title
- The Natural History of Selborne. To which are added, The Naturalist’s Calendar, Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. A New Edition, With Engravings. In Two Volumes.
- Author
- WHITE, GILBERT:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Printed for C & J. Rivington, J & A. Arch, Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown Green, Harding Triphook &c &c..
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY WHITE, GILBERT: The Natural History of Selborne, Edited with notes by Grant Allen, Illustrated by Edmund H. New, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902, illustrated
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
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- Spine
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