White Rev Gilbert Bennett (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Undated; published late 19th century. Octavo in dark red cloth binding. B&W illustrations. Condition: small damp mark lower corner of front cover; minor wear to binding; else a very good copy. 568 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Engravings by Thomas Bewick (illustrator). 4th Edition. Undated - circa 1890. Stereotyped 4th edition. xxii+568 pages with index. Red cloth covered hard boards have a little edge wear. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref M54. A Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton with Ten Letters Not Included in Any Other Edition of the Work by Rev. Gilbert White. Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett, Thoroughly Revised with Additional Notes by James Edmund Harting. Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London (Library of Standard Authors).

Condition: Good Plus. 8th Edition. Half black morocco leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Top page edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbing and fading to spine. Wear to corners of boards. Fading to top edge of boards, scratch to rear board. A few spots of foxing to page edges. Good solid binding with no cracking to joints. Slight browning to pages, heavy tanning from a bookmark to p314/315, a few light marks to text. Numerous illustrations within the text. Previous owner's inscription to leading blank. Overall condition is Good Plus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £20.50; Oceania £30.00; Rest of World £27.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: Large 8vo. xxii, [2],568.

8vo. red cloth. gilt letters. inner hinge cracked. binding has a little play in it. illustrated with the engravings of Thomas Bewick and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. A stunningly clean & bright copy of the Third Edition (1884) of this classic work in natural history & ornithology, which originally appeared in 1789. This edition, "thoroughly revised, with additional notes,'' also contains 10 letters (to Thomas Pennant, Esq. & the Honourable Daines Barrington) not included in any previous edition, as well as fresh illustrations in the form of engravings by Thomas Bewick & others throughout the 568 pages. A Preface by James Edmund Harting from 1874 & the original Advertisement to the First Edition are included. With bright red cloth-covered boards & faded gilt design to front & spine, this hardcover is in VG condition: extremely clean, binding straight & strong; a bit of mottling to rear board & a few tiny dark spots there. Pages modestly tanned, heavier around edges, but very supple. Heavier foxing in front matter & all endpapers. Foldout that precedes the section "The Naturalist's Calendar" is as pristine & crisp as if never opened! Gilt to all outside page edges is bright, marbled endpapers clean. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT ex-lib. A stunning copy of a book beloved by British birders for centuries! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. DENDY Walter Cooper (illustrator). [Extra Illustrated, Bennett edition] With the Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations, extracted from his papers. In contemporary red half morocco, vellum, decorative blind and gilt tooling, corners and edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine, with decorative gilt tooling and titles, edges lightly rubbed. Internally, red endpapers, pencil note explaining the EXTRA 16 fine pen and ink views on 16 leafs by Walter Cooper Denby to fep, all of which have the page No that they relate to, with his initials dated 1848, title page with vignette, (xxiii), [1] blank, [16] leaves of plates, 640 pp, 46 illustrations, small embossed lib stamp to ep (Neatham Mill Library TW), text block edges in gilt, preface signed IJB with a pencil notes explaining that this was Edward Turner Bennetts brother who edited this after the death of his brother, printed by C Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, the sixth edition? Dendy was a President of the Medical Society of London. He published a treatise on dreams and spectral manifestations in 1841 entitled Philosophy of Mystery, amongst a number of other works, often illustrated by himself. (Allibone 2684. Martin - Bibliography of Gilbert White p. 132) An exceptional copy. White, naturalist whose natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton, with engravings, and an appendix (1789), printed in London by T. Bensley for B. White & Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street, London. Extending, together with its index, the preparation of which White claimed to be 'an occupation full as entertaining as that of darning socks See ODNB.

Octavo; hardcover, upper board ruled in blind, with gilt spine titles and rules; 568pp., with many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; a touch shaken; spine extremities softened; some corner-bumping; text block edges lightly toned with some spotting and top edge dusted; heavy offset to the endpapers. No dustwrapper. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Bewick; Harvey; et al. (illustrator). Gilbert White's seminal natural history work, revised by James Edmund Harting, and bound in a full calf Bickers binding. An illustrated work in a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end papers and edges. Binder's stamp of Bickers & Son to the verso of the front free end paper. Ink inscription to the first blank.First published in 1789, this work has been in print continuously, with some three hundred editions up to 2007. It comprises a mix of letters addressed to other naturalists, phrenological observations and natural history observations. It was an immediate success, and is held as an early contribution to ecology and phenology, as well as a charming portrait of England pre-Industrial Revolution. Written by Gilbert White (1720-1793), a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist, this work has influenced many naturalists, including Thomas Bewick and Charles Darwin, with modern fans including David Attenborough and W. H. Auden.This edition was revised by James Edmund Harting (1841-1928), an English ornithologist and naturalist whose works include 'A Handbook of British Birds', 'The Ornithology of Shakespeare and 'The Birds of Middlesex'. Illustrated with in-text engravings by Thomas Bewick and others, as well as a folding facsimile plate. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, though rubbed to the spine and extremities, with two marks to the rear board. Front joint cracked, and front hinge slightly strained but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for some offsetting to the text and the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.