[Rarebooks] FS: Gilbert White's NATURAL HISTORY, 1802, with attractive illustrations

[Charles Agvent]

WHITE, Gilbert. THE WORKS IN NATURAL HISTORY, COMPRISING THE NATURAL 
HISTORY OF SELBORNE; THE NATURALIST'S CALENDER; MISCELLANEOUS 
OBSERVATIONS. London: J. White, 1802. First Edition. Two octavo (5-1/8" 
x 8-1/4") volumes bound in one in marbled boards with recent calf 
leather spine and corners and a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First 
Collected Edition, with a biographical preface by the author's nephew, 
John White. Illustrated with four engravings, two folding, including two 
hand-colored engraved plates of birds, one of which is folding. Even, 
mostly mild foxing. Near Fine. (#002675)     $350.00

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