White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... to which are added, the Naturalist's Calendar ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Large-paper copy, 1 volume bound in 2, 4to (289 x 226 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked, iii-x [2] 1-301, [302]-587 [1] pp., 9 engraved plates ('Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' and 'A Hybrid Pheasant' both hand-coloured; frontispiece 'North-east View of Selborne' folding), 2 section-titles each with engraved vignette, engraved tailpiece, bookplates of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1786-1869), politician and diarist, modern bookplates of Robin T. Comley (dated 1986), half-title discarded, plates somewhat spotted, signature 3O repaired in gutter - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. 4to (265 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered with most of original spine laid down, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, collation as the preceding item but retaining half-title and with 'Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' uncoloured, offsetting, light browning, closed tear in Y2, final leaf repaired - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, London: John van Voorst, 1872. 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 136 mm), 20th-century orange half calf by Bumpus, vignette half-titles, all plates as called for, bookplates of Sir Hector Livingston Duff (1872-1954), colonial administrator, joints and extremities rubbed - and 4 other editions of The Natural History of Selborne (not collated), all leather-bound, and comprising: New Edition, 1813 (2 volumes, octavo issue); New Edition, 1822 (2 volumes); The Works in Natural History, 1802 (2 copies: one in 2 volumes, the other 2 volumes bound in 1) (qty: 12) Martin pp. 106-8 (1813 edition). The first item is one of 50 large-paper copies (watermarks J Whatman 1810), with the plate of the Hybrid Bird and the plate of the painting presented to the church both hand-coloured; the second item is the quarto or royal octavo edition. It was also published in octavo (a copy of which issue is included in the lot).