The Rev Gilbert White (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Still well bound.  6 x 4 Inch.  Navy blue cover with gilt titling to spine and blind indented titling to front.  Interior in nice clean condition, no names nor inscriptions.  Please see my other listings for more volumes from this series, reduced postage offered on multiple purchases.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Facsimile of the 1860 edition. Faint stains to dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. This copy is in fine condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a neat dated inscription to the f.e.p. The price clipped dust wrapper has some spotting and some mild edge wear so best described as near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This edition is a facsimile of the 1860 illustrated edition which in addition to the engraved illustrations also includes some of White's poems, a biography, and a naturalist's calendar. This edition has a new introduction by Hockley Clarke, editor of 'Birds and Country' magazine. Ref DDD 6.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Some light foxing to end pages.

Full-Leather (Maroon). Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. New Edition. 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 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Illustrated with Many Plates (illustrator). Isabella Shepherd Islington Sc. …

Hard Back. The Natural History of Selborne and The Naturalists Calendar Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to the front board and to the spine Boards overall in very good condition and with little wear Patterned endpapers Previous owners neat name to the half title page Contents very clean with several black and white illustrations throughout Binding tight Overall a good little copy perfect as a gift pp470 Publishers Pagesnbsp. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Undated; published late 19th century. Octavo in dark red cloth binding. B&W illustrations. Condition: small damp mark lower corner of front cover; minor wear to binding; else a very good copy. 568 pages.

Condition: Poor. Hardcover. Previous owner was a smoker, smoke smell to book. Green cover with illustrations & gilt titles on front/spine. Marks/scuffs to cover. Binding heavily cracked in places. Inscription at front dated 1885. Tanning/foxing to pages. Page 307 to 318 loose, held in place with a paperclip.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Reissue. With maps and illustrations, a very good copy. ; 200 x 130mm; viii, 264 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. A very scarce 1840 copy of this much-reprinted work, with illustrations. Bound in original brown cloth, with decorative gilt page edges, and delicate gilt motif to the spine.Includes 7 monochrome plates, in addition to charming vignette illustrations.No other collation record available.Missing the frontispiece.Originally published in 1789, this work was immediately well-received, and has been republished in over 300 editions since its debut.Features a 'Naturalist's Calendar' section towards the rear of the book. Bound in original brown cloth. Externally, with shelf Wear. Rubbing to spine. Loss to cloth to head, tail, and rear joint. Spotting to endpapers. Final page stuck to rear paste down. Ink inscription to front paste down. Slight forward lean. Internally, firmly bound. Front hinge starting. Pages generally bright and clean, heavy spotting to title page. Occasional spotting throughout. Tide marks to p 344. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Blindstamped cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. xxiv, 416 pp. With 40 hand-colored illustrations and steel engraved frontis. The lovely animal plates are similar to those found in Jardine. Frontis has foxing. Otherwise, but for occasional light and trivial soiling, a clean and tight copy. Some fading of gilt decoration on spine. Repair along front gutter. Darkening along both gutters. Wear along spine tips.…

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. a new edition with notes by G Christopher Davies, marbled brds, near fine, 470 pp., wenig stockfleckig, sonst sehr gut - nur a-891 Language: DEU.

Very Early Printing in format as the first edition. With twelve engraved plates including one handcoloured and one multi-folding. 4to, bound in three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards, the spine decorated in panel designs in blind within compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, t.e.g., others untrimmed. x, 587 pp. A fine and handsome copy in original quarto format with a full grouping ot engraved plates. Some mellowing as would be expected, a bit of minor aging to the binding. An unusually pleasing copy. A SIMPLY LOVELY EARLY 19TH CENTURY EDITION OF WHITE'S CHARMING WORK IN IMPRESSIVE QUARTO FORMAT AS THE FIRST EDITION. A copy with a full selection of engraved plates. "Open the book where you will, it takes you out-of-doors. In simplicity of taste and natural refinement [White] reminds you of Walton; in tenderness toward what he would have called the brute creation, of Cowper. He seems to have lived before the fall. His volumes are the journal of Adam in Paradise" (Lowell, quoted in Grolier 100, 124).…

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. Lovely full-calf binding, with gilt centerpiece figure of a bird, a subtle blindstamped perimeter band, animal figures in gilt placed in spine compartments. The calf itself has a pleasing and warm speckling that sets it apart. 8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. xxiv, 416 pp. Many engraved plates. Occasional light foxing, but mostly clean. Slight, even warping of the boards, but other than light wear, the binding has an uncommon freshness to it.…