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Edité par Alpha Edition, 2019
ISBN 10 : 9353804620ISBN 13 : 9789353804626
Vendeur : Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Livre
Etat : New.
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Edité par John Van Voorst, GB, 1877
Vendeur : Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardback. Etat : G++. Etat de la jaquette : No DW. 1st Thus. Publishers cloth lettered in gold on spines and with blind farmes on covers. Armorial bookplates of Arthur E Eastwood who has written on both front endpapers "Arthur E Eastwood 18th May 1878 In rememberance of a driving tour with his father & mother and visist to the author at Selborne in September 1875." Clean tight texts are pulling loose from clean covers with spines rather worn at end. Just a good reading set., SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2023 £8) Packed weight 2900g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS.
Edité par John Van Voorst, 1877
Vendeur : Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Volume I published by John Van Voorst in 1877. Boards have Light wear/fading, internally very clean & sound. 8 illustrations all intact & free from marks. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 48G*.
Edité par LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2015
ISBN 10 : 1342270916ISBN 13 : 9781342270917
Vendeur : moluna, Greven, Allemagne
Livre
Gebunden. Etat : New.
Edité par John Van Voorst, London, 1877
Vendeur : PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Volume I and II complete. Hardcovers without dust jackets, in very good condition for their age. From the collection of Ian Angus (British Librarian and a scholar on George Orwell), whose name and date are pencilled to FEP. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, and spines are sunned and slightly cocked. Page blocks are tanned and blemished, with foxing on the page block heads. Foxing also noted on the endpapers. Bindings are sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.
Edité par Jon Van Voorst, London, 1877
Vendeur : Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Solid dark blue boards with title info on spines in gilt. These copies haven't been read, the tops of the pages still attached. Be the first! Volume one has an inch long rip on the hinge of the spine, more of a gouge than from wear. The damage is not obvious. Vol. 1: Natural history, antiquities, naturalist's calendar, observations on various parts of nature, and poems. Vol.2: Correspondence, sermon, account-book, garden kalendar, animals and plants, geology, Roman-British antiquities.
Edité par John van Voorst 1877, London, 1877
Vendeur : Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, Royaume-Uni
Original Cloth - Gilt Lettered. Etat : Near Fine. Two Volumes. lix, 507 pp. ; [6], 410, [2 pub. ads.] pp. Blue stamped cloth binding with gilt text to spines. Sunning to spine and minor wear to extremities, with condition uniform across both volumes. Bindings firm. Includes 14 illustrations and 2 engraved plates. Internally clean, aside from very minor foxing to fore-edge and browning to endpapers. With a bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes, from the library of G. C. Davies, notable author on fishing, sailing, and Norfolk. Some marginal pencil lines and marks within. 8vo.
Edité par Without date or place
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien Signé
A very nice artefact of one of the best-loved books in the England language, Gilbert White's 'Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne', which at one point was claimed to be the fourth most-printed book after the Bible, Shakespeare, and Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress'. White's entry in the Oxford DNB concludes by describing the book as 'an expression of universal thanksgiving, treasured by all'. The present item is the original manuscript of what White's editor Thomas Bell describes as 'Gilbert White's statement' on the venomous properties of the toad, first printed in a footnote (signed 'T. B.') on pp.51-52 of the first volume of Bell's 1877 edition of 'The Natural History of Selborne' (London: John Van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row). The following note by Bell, prefixed to White's 'statement', indicates the significance Bell placed upon it, and the circumstances of its composition: 'The habit of close observation of nature which was so conspicuous in White himself was communicated by his example to many who came within the sphere of his influence. [ ] The following account, which I find amongst his papers, is a striking example of this. The observer was doubtless no other than his old gardener, Thomas Hoar, a quaint original, who was many years in his service. The account is not in White's handwriting, but evidently written from his dictation, as it is in a boy's hand, and has several verbal corrections, and the diction is his own.' The present manuscript text of White's 'statement' corresponding to the 1877 printed version in all but accidentals is written out over thirty-one lines on one side of an 8vo piece of eighteenth-century laid paper, with watermark of a coat of arms enclosed in a circular belt topped by a crown. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased, with light wear along two edges, with margins cropped making the leaf 30.5 x 18 cm. The present text of the 'statement' corresponds with Bell's description: it is not in White's handwriting, but in 'a boy's hand'; it has 'several verbal corrections', and the diction is White's own. The layout of the 'statement' is, in addition, very similar to that of the original manuscript of the 'Natural History', suggesting the possibility that the leaf it is written on once formed part of it. Comparison with the printed version clearly indicates that all but one of the twelve emendations the document contains are authorial rather than scribal. The more significant emendations are: 'to the [last word deleted] clear the ground of grubs & noxious [last word deleted] insects upon which to convince me to the contrary [last three words amended to 'that it was not altogether harmless'] he took the toad upon the skin of its back & set it [last three words amended to '& placing it on a gravel walk']'; 'There seems some analogy [last two words amended to 'to be some resemblance'] between this [last word amended to 'the'] toad & the viper'; 'from the [last word amended to 'their'] enemies by their dexterity [last word replaced by 'agility']'; 'This effect [last word deleted] continued'; 'How the venomous [last word amended to 'venom']'. Two other emendations comprise additions: 'which, exposed it to many cruelties' added after 'its poisonous qualities'; and 'from former experiments', added after 'bitch at it, who'. The twelfth and final emendation is a clerical one; the clarifying of the final 'e' in 'are' in the phrase 'are armed'. A couple of factors reinforce the impression that the document was used by a printer. Firstly, in pencil, at the head of the page, is written 'Copied & printed'. Secondly, added in ink at various points in the document are what appear to be two printer's marks: first, a symbol of a dot in a circle, repeated once; and another symbol of a square with a central vertical line through it, also repeated once. On the reverse of the document, and supporting its claim to authenticity, is the following set of readings: 'Thermometer. | Decr. 12 morning at 8 24 | 2 afternoon 32 | 11 night 27 | [Decr.] 13th at 8 morn'. 28 | at 2 noon [sic] 32 | at 11 night 26 | [Decr.] 14th 8 morn'. 25 | 11 at nig [this line deleted] | 2 at noon [blank]'.
Edité par LONDON: John Van Voorst 1 Paternoster Row, 1877
Vendeur : John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969, STAITHES, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
A Lovely Copy of the two volume "Bell's Edition" [ see Martin p.152 ] In Demy 8vo fine half calf binding with marbled sides by Fawn & Son Bristol. A highly significant edition, not merely because of Bell's own emminence as a zoologist and his close associations with Darwin, but for his 38 year residence at White's own house "The Wakes" which particularly qualified him to write about the man & his village and includes much material not available to earlier editors. " Darwin himself claimed to have stood on the shoulders of Gilbert White who is now widely regarded as the father of the ecology movement.
Edité par John Van Voorst, London, 1877
Edition originale
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). First edition. The scarce large paper edition of this important work of natural history from Gilbert White. The first edition of this work to be edited by the zoologist Thomas Bell. The scarce 8vo large paper copy of this first edition thus of Gilbert White's influential work on antiquities and the natural history of Selborne, a village in East Hampshire, England. The first edition to be edited by Thomas Bell, in the scarce publisher's original cloth.Illustrated with a vignette half title and frontispiece to each volume. With one folding plate and two further plates to volume I, and one colour plate, one folding plate and two further plates to volume II. Collated, complete.This is a collection of letters documenting the natural history of the area around Selborne, written by Gilbert White to other prominent antiquarians and natural historians of his time.The work was well received upon its publication, and has continued to be widely read well into the twentieth century. Fans of the work include the likes of Virginia Woolf, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is generally considered to be a classic of nature and antiquarian writing.Two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping and small losses of cloth to back strip head and tail. Head of volume I front and rear joint - and volume II front joint - starting, with boards holding firm. Horizontal closed tears to back strip heads. Inscription to verso of front free endpaper to volume I. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot or light handling mark. Very Good. book.