28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, London: John van Voorst, 1877. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth (recased), all plates as called for, bookplates of W. H. Mullens (1866-1946), ornithologist and co-author of A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917), with his pencilled bibliographical notes laid in (1 page, on bifolium of his Westfield Place stationery), and 3 letters from various correspondents (one to R. Bowdler Sharpe) also laid in, together with 5 other copies of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, not collated (one copy of the 1813 edition, uncut in original boards, rebacked; 2 copies of the 1825 edition, one uncut in original cloth-blacked boards, the other in later cloth; and 2 copies of the Bell edition, 1877, of which one the large-paper issue, royal 8vo, both in original cloth) (qty: 12)
Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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