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White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and A Garden Kalendar. Edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 2 volumes, 1st edition thus, London: S. T. Freemantle, 1900, half-titles, all plates as called for, including numerous photogravures after J. G. Keulemans and 2 folding manuscript facsimiles, top edges gilt, others untrimmed (these spotted), 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines sunned to tan, 8vo (21.8 x 14.6 cm), together with: ibid. The Natural History of Selborne. Edited with Notes by Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmund H. New, 1st edition thus, London: The Bodley Head, 1900, 2 engraved portraits, illustrations throughout, original part wrapper bound in, top edge gilt, 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Morrell, sunned, royal 8vo (23.9 x 16.7 cm), Dresser (Henry Eeles). A Manual of Palaearctic Birds, 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1902-3, frontispiece to each part, original printed wrappers bound in at rear, autograph letter signed from Dresser concerning the work's publication to local historian and curator Alfred Heneage Cocks (dated 25 May 1903) tipped to front free endpaper verso, Cocks's bookplate to front pastedown, later collector's letter tipped to initial blank, related ownership inscription and bookplate to front free endpaper recto, contemporary red half morocco, front joint rubbed, 8vo (22.2 x 15 cm), Barrington (Richard M. .The Migration of Birds as observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, [1900], half-title, folding map, publisher's slip, contemporary gift inscription and spotting to half-title, partly unopened, original red cloth, rebacked with red morocco, 8vo, Saunders (Howard). An Illustrated Manual of British Birds, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1889, half-title, errata slip, 3 folding maps, wood-engravings throughout, contemporary ownership inscription of British soldier and war hero Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971) to front free endpaper ('F. S. Chapman, St John's College, Cambridge, May 1929'), contemporary green half morocco, 8vo (21.2 x 12.9 cm) (Qty: 6) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Freeman 3976.23 (White, Sharpe's edition), 3976.21 (White, Allen's edition), 204 (Barrington), 3310 (Saunders); Mullens & Swann pp. 643 (White, Sharpe's edition), 642 (White, Allen's edition), 180 (Dresser), 43 (Barrington), 509 (Saunders).