28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 83
 

83

White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, London

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


 

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