Search Results: the natural history of selborne with by white rev gilbert

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), 1908. hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). The Natural History Of Selborne: Arranged For Young Persons. Reprint of the New Edition. 1908Acceptable condition because the cloth is lifting from the boards in place. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

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..

Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. Hardback, no dustwrapper, decorative boards lightly rubbed to edges and spine, bumped to corners, small repaired split to top of spine. Bookplate and quote from Rusking to front paste down, no other inscriptions, excellent engravings good condition internally, appears to have been only lightly read.

Hardcover. Very good. Engraved frontis., 40 wood-engraved full-page Illus., index; xxiv+416pp. 8vo later green cloth, spine gilt, No Jacket issued

London ; Glasglow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1888. Hardback, spine relaid, new end-papers. xii, 348pp. Frontis. Illus. Tenth edition. Binding slightly darkened and worn. A pleasing copy. (q17). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

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, UK: George Bell and Sons. G/No Dustjacket. 1881. ........ Cloth. Additions and supplimentary notes by William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index, by Edward Jesse. With 40 engravings. . 12mo., 416, 1-31 pp., Cover stained, spine browned, tips frayed; inside hinges cracked, shaken, foxed frontis and tp; uncut pages .

Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1836. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Small hardback. Leather spine and corners. Boards are a a swirl of brown, green, pin, beige and other colors. Rubbing/wear to leather. Two fairly deep gashes on the front boards near the top; one is about 2 1/4" long, the other 1 1/4" long. They go through the top tayer. Another small area on the outer side of the front board, where the top layer is loose. The gold print and decorations on the spine and clear and crisp. PO's name on the inside front cover. The pages are tight; clean/unmarked, except for the backside of the last end page, which has some pencil squiggels on it. 356 pages. With illustrations. Only print info is the year on the bottom of the title page "MDCCCXXXVI" A lovely little book in Fine or better condition given its age. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

GB: J. and A. Arch; Longman and Co. [et al] , 1837. Not dated but perhaps about 1837. Clean tight text has blinmd stamp of "The Selborne Society" on title page. Text has been slightly trimmed and edges sprinkled red. Fitted with nerw endpapers and bound for Ealing Public Libraries in strong green cloth, gilt. Their stmap on front cover and colourful armorial library (stamped with drawn) on front pastedown. No other library marks. A very good working copy.SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1100g. . Hardback. Good/No DW.

London.: Henry G. Bohn., 1854. xxiv, 416pp, with 40 engravings. With additions and supplementary notes by Sir William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author, and a complete index by Edward Jesse. Full leather binding with embossed pattern, inner gilt borders & gilt page edges. Firm & bright binding, lightly rubbed. Internally an owner's inscription, else clean & unmarked.. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

John Van Voorst., 1843. pp.xvi, 398 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Nice bookplate to front paste-down & insc. dated 1907 to ffep. Contents very clean and in vg. condition. Internal hinges show some use, still good plus. Original, decorated green cloth in good to vg. condition.

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.

N.d. [1861]. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. [1861] A New Edition. viii, 338pp. Frontis. with tissue guard, map and vignettes throughout. Original patterned green cloth, gilt. Spine sunned to brown and sl. frayed at head. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1861. Small named printed bookplate to front pastedown. An exceptionally clean and sound copy. Near fine.

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.

John van Voorst, London. 1843. John van Voorst, London. 1843. Full pale tan calf, gilt type to contrasting black tan label to spine with raised bands and rich gilt decoration to compartments. All page edges and end-papers marbled. xvi + 398 pages. Ills. Extremities sl. rubbed with sl. damp staining to lower margin of upper board; leather beginning to split along hinges at head of upper board and tail and lower; inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Overall a nice copy.

London: Printed for J. and A. Arch; Longman and Co. [et al], [1837].. 8vo, (xxiv), 640 pp. Title vignette and engraved illustrations in the text. Modern half morocco, a handsome copy. Martin p.132.

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: 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 : George Bell, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited by E Jesse, with additions and supplementary notes by Sir William Jardine. 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm xxiv- 416 pages, engraved frontis of Selborne with forty engravings of birds and animals all 40 of the plates finely HAND COLOURED to a high standard. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks. Bound in a contemporary full red calf with the gilt crest of 'Schola Civitatis Londinensis' (City of London School) to upper board within blind stamped and gilt decorated borders. The spine in six compartments with green title label, with gilt central device within decorative floral corner pieces to the remaking 5 compartments. The binding clean and tight with no splits chipping or rubbing.