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Natural history of selborne gilbert white bauman rare books. Fascinating book not so much for the natural history as for the look at the history of science. White the natural history of selborne, and the naturalists calendar, 1879. The new naturalist folio society devotees librarything. With more than two hundred editions, gilbert whites the natural history of selborne is one of the most published books in the english language. The book is in the form of a collection of letters to two friends, discussing the natural history of the areas that he knew, and natural history in general. Bell, thomas 17921880 dnb00 wikisource, the free online. The natural history of selborne, and the naturalists. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The natural history and antiquities of selborne gilbert white. This is a landscape rich in wildlife and character, and the author has both the skill as a naturalist and writer to bring it to life through the letters he writes in many ways this is the blog from the 18th century. Folio society the natural history and antiquities of. The gilbert white museum edition of the natural history of selborne.
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This is an exlibrary book and may have the usual libraryused book markings inside. The natural history of selborne journals of gilbert white. The book was published late in whites life, compiled from a mixture of his letters to other naturaliststhomas pennant and daines. Anne secord is an affiliated research scholar in the department of history and philosophy of science, university of cambridge. If you wish to see the entries for a particular day, use the search box in the upper right corner of this page. The natural history of selborne by white, gilbert hardback book. Natural history antiquities selborne by white abebooks. He was early attracted to natural history, especially zoology, and for some. When compiling his seminal work, the natural history and antiquities of selborne 1789, gilbert white relied on a number of natural history books in order to manage and accumulate information. The biodiversity heritage library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
First edition of folio edition illus by john piper by gilbert white. The natural history and antiquities of selborne white, gilbert, illustrated by illus by john piper. White, gilbert, 17201793 jardine, william, sir, 18001874 type. The natural history and antiquities of selborne stereotyped edition by rev. The natural history of selborne in the county of southampton white, gilbert published by oxford university press the worlds classics, gb 1937. Advertisement the author of the following letters takes the liberty, with all proper deference, of laying before the public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities. Project gutenberg presents the natural history of selborne by gilbert white. The natural history of selborne by white gilbert abebooks. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to 2007.
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