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Bristol: Arrowsmith 248 Pages. About good condition with minor fading of cloth, minor staining of cloth at top edge, and light offsetting on both free endpapers. Endpapers are lightly tanned. Dust jacket is fair with small pieces missing at corners and top & bottom edges of spine. Back of jacket has minor soiling and staining. . 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by CHERRY kEARTON AND rICHARD kEARTON. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

Robert M. McBride & Co., New York, 1925. . Hardcover. VERY GOOD, MINOR Foxing, Marginal Notations In Pencil, Worm Eaten Rear Endpapers. Sm Quarto, Tan Buckrum. Including 85 Photos Including Many Taken Specially At Selborne By Cherryt And Richard Kearton Sm Quarto, Tan Buckrum, 1925, PP.248, D13f

London: Arrowsmith, 1924. Book. Good. Hardback. First. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 248pp. Green Cloth cover, no dustwrapper, no inscriptions, bumped to corners otherwise good. All photographs present. G/-.

Arrowsmith. Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. To every reader who loves the memory of Gilbert White, you should come and indulge your soul in the peace of this little Hampshire village. The cover is faded along the spine. The Jacket is worn and has small tears around the edges, the back has small marks.

London, United Kingdom: George Bell And Sons, 1890. Book. Illus. by Forty Color Engravings. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small Red Private Library Stamp On Front Endpaper And Title Page, Otherwise Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy Green Covers With Gold Lettering On Spine. Bohn Libraries And Emblem On Bottom Of Spine. Moderate/Normal Shelf Wear..

The Folio Society, London, 1962. 216 pp, map in end-papers, b&w plates, fine copy in illustrated, cloth boards, with fine slipcase.

London: Cassell & Co Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. 1887. First edition thus. Brown hardback cloth cover. 140mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 192pp + ads. .

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS Green Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. xxviii + 476 pp. + 8 of publisher's adverts. Steel engraved frontis, illustrated half title + all other illustrations as called for + other unspecified chapter end pieces save that list provides for general view of Selborne to face p.vii whereas op. p22. Undated circa 1890's published in Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books Series. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- mild general shelf wear and soiling with wrinkle to cloth at front board, end papers browned with previous owner name in ink to free front end paper, a few very light foxing spots to top and fore edge, remainder of book block clean. Binding sound with no other notable defects).

London: Casssell and Company Ltd., 1911. Book. Illus. by Cherry and Richard Kearton. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. pp xvi, 294 ; colour frontisepiece of a Kingfisher, 123 illustrations from photographs. Blue cloth decorative binding good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, untidy tape residue line to the front hinge, original endpapers, no inscriptions or other marks. A good copy..

LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO, 1891 Navy Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles and publisher's ornate device to spine, later blind blocked to front. 225 x 145 mm approx. Bible brown End Papers, top edge gilt, xxii + 568 pp. 59 engravings by Thomas Bewick and others in text all as called for. Ornate initial letters to chapters. Stereotyped Edition 1891 of the Standard Edition by E.T.Bennett Thoroughly Revised by J.E.Harting with Ten Letters not included in any prior edition. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- moderate to heavy wear to cloth including some fraying to head and tail of spine, no cracks to end papers, Long ink gift insc to reverse of half title dated Feb 1891.A few mild foxing spots to prelims, no annotations - a well used copy however binding remains sound. Restoration work - some sympathetic colouring to spine and board edges to mitigate the colour rubbing to cloth).

Orr and smith, London, 1836, New edition,. Fair. 1836. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xx,418,(40pp, woodcut illustrations, owner's name on title page and endpapers, pages browned and some foxing, text otherwise clean and sound, brown cloth, spine backstrip cracked and torn with some loss at ends; Fair condition .

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

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.

Bloomsbury: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1891. Book. Illus. by Thomas Bewick. Very Good. Hardcover. Stereotype Edition. 8vo. pp. xxii, 568, numerous in text illustrations engraved by thomas Bewick. Original decorative red cloth spine with green boards, very good and bright with a little rubbing only. Contents clean and tight, original green endpapers, half title toned, the rest of the book is clean and free from spotting. A very good copy of this attractive edition.[Mullens & Swann Harting edition p.641].

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very beautifully bound in red decorated cloth with gilt and other colours, light wear to spine ends but remaining clean bright and square. Gilt page edges. Hinge firm, except front free end paper detached but present. There is a school price paste-down inside the front dated 1896. Pages smooth and clean, age-toned but no spotting or foxing. A lovely copy. May incur additional postage charges outside Europe.

Edinburgh: Fraser & co, 1834. Second edition thus (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 11cm), xii, 356pp. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Late binding of quarter brown cloth, grey boards, black title label to the spine. Some rubbing of the boards and the title label, minor foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good plus condition.

London: Macmillan, 1887. New edition. Full leather binding, red leather with gilt title on spine, four raised bands (slightly rubbed), Rutland School gilt emblem on front cover and school prize bookplate within, all edges marbled. A very nice copy of the classic work. . V.g. /No Jacket. Slight wear to extremities and bands, prize bookplate dated 1890, , red leather with gilt title on spine, four raised bands (slightly rubbed), Rutland School gilt emblem on front cover, all edges marbled. A very nice copy of the classic work. xxix,x (1), 480 pp.

London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Third Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Third Edition. Leather_bound. This foundational book in the history of environmentalism is the work of parson-naturalist and birdwatching pioneer Gilbert White (1720-1793), referred to by many as the first environmentalist, and Selborne was the community he called home. Selborne is a small village in Hampshire, England. The Natural History of Selborne is an extraordinary work due precisely to its ordinary character. Rather than venture to the world's farthest reaches, the book blazed a different path for aspiring naturalists—a path toward home, revealing the value of digging deep and observing the world that lies right outside your door. The observations and correspondence of a humble parson of a country parish, Gilbert White's Selborne won the admiration of such titans as Virginia Woolf, who praised its near-novelistic prose, and Charles Dickens, who after reading it as young man, wondered "why every gentleman did not become an… Read More

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Blindstamped cloth. 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.