The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
by White, Gilbert; Bennett, E. T. (Ed.); Harting, James Edmund (Notes); Bewick, Thomas (Illust.)
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Third Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Third Edition. Leather_bound. This foundational book in the history of environmentalism is the work of parson-naturalist and birdwatching pioneer Gilbert White (1720-1793), referred to by many as the first environmentalist, and Selborne was the community he called home. Selborne is a small village in Hampshire, England. The Natural History of Selborne is an extraordinary work due precisely to its ordinary character. Rather than venture to the world's farthest reaches, the book blazed a different path for aspiring naturalists—a path toward home, revealing the value of digging deep and observing the world that lies right outside your door. The observations and correspondence of a humble parson of a country parish, Gilbert White's Selborne won the admiration of such titans as Virginia Woolf, who praised its near-novelistic prose, and Charles Dickens, who after reading it as young man, wondered "why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist." This handsome Victorian-era edition is bound in full gilt-decorated leather, with marbled edges and endpapers, and comes illustrated in engravings by Thomas Bewick and others throughout. This third edition also offers ten letters not included in any previous edition.
8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xxii, 568pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in full red calf over boards, with armorial insignia and device of Sherborne School in Dorset stamped in gilt to gilt-ruled boards and spine lettered in gilt over a green leather title label with five gilt-decorated compartments and five raised bands. All edges marbled, with matching marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles faded. Moderate to heavy wear to binding, with tears to leather at edges and extremities, scuffing and scattered rubbing, indentations to boards, wear to exterior hinges, and shallow losses to head and tail of spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription of C. J. Hill, dated Summer 1883, to flyleaf. 4" neat tear to fold-out plate facsimile from White's journal facing page 383. Very occasional spot of foxing to pages, else clean and unmarked. An admittedly worn but sound and still very handsome leatherbound 1880 edition of this foundational book in the history of environmentalism.
8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xxii, 568pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in full red calf over boards, with armorial insignia and device of Sherborne School in Dorset stamped in gilt to gilt-ruled boards and spine lettered in gilt over a green leather title label with five gilt-decorated compartments and five raised bands. All edges marbled, with matching marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles faded. Moderate to heavy wear to binding, with tears to leather at edges and extremities, scuffing and scattered rubbing, indentations to boards, wear to exterior hinges, and shallow losses to head and tail of spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription of C. J. Hill, dated Summer 1883, to flyleaf. 4" neat tear to fold-out plate facsimile from White's journal facing page 383. Very occasional spot of foxing to pages, else clean and unmarked. An admittedly worn but sound and still very handsome leatherbound 1880 edition of this foundational book in the history of environmentalism.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13013
- Title
- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
- Author
- White, Gilbert; Bennett, E. T. (Ed.); Harting, James Edmund (Notes); Bewick, Thomas (Illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Bickers and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- leatherbound giftable
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Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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