Natural History, Science & Medicine
WHITE, Gilbert [and] ALLEN Grant, editor,
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,
John Lane for the Bodley Head, London and New York. 1900. 4to, xl, 528pp, 3 maps, 45 full-page illustrations including frontispiece, over 100 smaller illustrations in text, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, contemporary half green morocco gilt, slightly worn and rubbed at the corners, spine gilt lettered and decorated; a near fine copy.
More than eighty editions were published. This is one of the only works on Natural History which has attained the rank of an English classic. First detailed work on local fauna in Great Britain if not in the world. The illustrations are by Edmund H. New.
Price: £ 250
US Dollar Price: $ 500
Stock Number: 50643