28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 79
 

79

White (Gilbert). A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History

White (Gilbert). A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History, 1st edition, London: R. and J. White, 1795. 8vo (194 x 120 mm), later half calf, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, ownership inscription and purchase note of R. Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909), ornithologist and editor of White's Selborne), bookplate of W. H. Mullens (1866-1946), ornithologist and co-author of A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917), pencilled marginalia throughout, joints rubbed and partially split, spotting - Newton (Alfred). Gilbert White of Selborne [private offprint from the Dictionary of National Biography, volume LXI, 1899]. 8vo (216 x 135 mm), contemporary half morocco, 34 [2] pp., original front wrapper bound in, title-page with inscriptions 'W. C. J. R. Butterfield Esq, from the author' and 'Thomas Parkin Esq, with kind regards of W. Ruskin Butterfield', manuscript corrections in text (identified in another inscription to the title-page, presumably by Parkin, as being 'in the handwriting of the author'), autograph letter signed from Alfred Newton to Thomas Parkin concerning oology and the work of John Wolley tipped in, Parkin's bookplate and ownership inscription, various newspaper cuttings mounted to blanks, exhibition catalogue ('The Gilbert White Exhibition, February 16th and 17th, 1912, Arranged by the Selborne Society) bound in at rear - and 3 others including another copy of White, A Naturalist's Calendar, 1st edition, 1795 (untrimmed, later boards) (qty: 5) ESTC T39655 (White, A Naturalist's Calendar).

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

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