Lot 30: WHITE, GILBERT.

A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR. LONDON: FOR B. AND J. WHITE, 1795, FIRST EDITION, RED MOROCCO GILT BY WATERS, TEXT SLIGHTLY SPOTTED -- [TAYLOR, S.A.]

WHITE, GILBERT.

A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR. LONDON: FOR B. AND J. WHITE, 1795, FIRST EDITION, RED MOROCCO GILT BY WATERS, TEXT SLIGHTLY SPOTTED--[TAYLOR, S.A.]

600--800 GBP



and another edition of Walton (1904), together 7 volumes, all illustrated, various sizes (7)

NOTE

The Naturalist's Calendar has contemporary marginalia (one entry referring to a recent incident as occurring on 16 July 1795), the writer embellishing Gilbert White's accounts with personal reminiscences such as "Nr Scarboro' in the Cliff near the Spa I heard a remarkable twittering of Sand Martins in looking up I observ'd a considerable number of them flying over the head of a stoat who enter'd their holes and brought out their young which he carried probably to his own dwelling - he quickly return'd to the next hole and repeated often the same performance till I procur'd a Gun and shot him".