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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.

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.

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.

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.

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. .

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.

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. .

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.

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… 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.

London: for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. 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… Read More