Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BINDING.) White, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . . . With The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations, extracted from his Papers. A New Edition; with Notes, by Edward Turner Bennett, Esq. F.L.S. Wood-engraved text illustrations throughout. xxiii, [1], 640 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 214x131 mm, dark green morocco gilt by Kelliegram with pointillé frame incorporating repeated stylized floral motifs with green and red morocco onlays and repeated tool of bird in flight on covers, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with floral tooling in the rest, doublures of vari-colored onlaid morocco depicting town views in Selborne, brown silk endleaves, original cloth backstrip and covers bound in; faint foxing on preliminaries; gilt edges; 1/4 morocco folding case. London, (1836)

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first bennett edition of White's writings, in a superb kelliegram binding.