PROCEEDINGS OF T^N1TE::> S'l'ATE.S NATIONAL MUSEI'M. o() < 



1739. Walcott, J.— Coiiliiincd. 



maker iiow. Blackfnar.s, | L\>v the Author: | And .sold hy Mcw.s. White and 

 Soii, Fle.'t Street; | Eo])sou and Chirkc, New-Bond Street; | And .I.Mathews, 

 Strand. I — I M, DCC.LXXXIX. 2 vols. sni. 4to. Not paged ; with some 

 250 illustrations, in the test, not mmibevcd. 



There is said to be another edition, 1792. (?) 



"The following "Worli contains the description and manners of nearly all our Uritish birds, 

 with a figure of each, copied by the Author from nature. . . . The particular merit this 

 "Work is entitled to, lies iu the figures being faithful copies of nature ; and that it adds alittlo 

 to our knowledge of the manners of birds." (Retract from Preface.) A few of the plates are 

 copies from Brisson, and others. The author drew most of them from fresh specimens; 

 others from specimens in the Parkinson and Latham museums : the di-scriptions of these 

 latter being from Latham's "Synopsis." The engravings are of half -page size, heading a 

 page, the rest of the page being text, backed blank ; many leaves of generic characters are 

 interpolated. There is no pagination, printer's signature or numeration of the i)lates. Some 

 250 species are thus treated, the work thus consisting of as many sheets, plus the interpolated 

 sheets of generic details. The sequence of the species appears to bo nearly that of the 

 Lmna?an Systema Jf aturai, beginning with Yultu7; and ending with Caprimulgus. 

 1739. [White, G.] The | Natural History | and | Antiquities | of | Selborue, | in the 

 I County of Southampton [by Gilbert White] : | with | Engravings, and an 

 Appendix. | London: | printed, hy T. Bensley; | for B. White and Son, at 

 Horace's Head, Fleet street. | M. DCC. LXXXIX. 1 vol. 4to. pp. i-vi, 1-468, 

 7 unnumbered 11. (index and errata), eng. title-p., and 7 coj)pcr-pll., besides 

 one in text of p. ;507. 



Not seen: title from Newton, Ifotes and Queries, 5th ser., vii, Mar. 31, 1S77, p. 241 ; which 

 see, especially, for a bibliography of G. White's published writings. 



This is the editio princeps of "White's Selborne"; from which, with or without the "Cal- 

 endar" and "Observatictos," which were incorporated in 1802, flow numberless editions, 

 variously edited and modified. . 1 give nearly all of them in this bibliography ; but see 

 especially Newton, as just cited. 



The famous work is ostensibly anonymous ; but the author's name, "Gil. White." ajxpears 

 on p. V. of the " Adv(>rtisement ". The pi. opp. p. 259 represents Gharadrius himantopus. 



"Many as our English Naturalists have been, and among them men endowed with so much 

 excellence as to ensure their taking and holding a rank not inferior to that enjoyed by the 

 naturalists of any other nation, there is but one whose writings have i)laced him among Eng- 

 lish classical authors. This one is Gilbert White ; and his best known work, The Natural 

 History and Antiquities of Selborne, has only to be named to ensure its respectful if not 

 rapturous reception by all classes."— iV[a<. 13 July, 1720 : ob. 26 June, 1793. 



A summary notice of the editions of Selborne, etc., is given under 1877, Nf.wton, A., q. v. 



The following memoranda give the dates of publication of nearly all of White's published 

 writings, exclusive of the two Swallow papers in Philos. Trans. 



1789, Nat. Hist. Ant. Selb., orig. ed.— 1792, Gei-man, ed. Meyer.— m03, Nat. Hist. Ant.— 

 1795, Nat. Calend., ed. AiHn.— 1802, Works (Nat. Hist. Ant. Calond. and Misc. Obs), ed. Mark- 



wiclc.—lSn, Same, with Poems.- ?1822 (—?= 1802?)— '1825 ?— 1829, Nat. Hist. Selb., ed. 



Jardine.—W29, Nat. Hist. Selb., ed. Jardine.—Vi830, Nat. Hist. Ant. — ?— 1832, Nat. Hist. Ant., 

 ed. Jardine.— 183^, Nat. Hist. Ant., notes by several, ed. Jiennie. — 1833, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady 

 Dorer.— 1833, Nat. Hist. Obs. and Calend., ed. JJrowft.— ? 1833, Nat. Hist. Ant., ed. Jardine.— 

 1834, Nat. Hist. Obs. and Calend., ed. i;row}j.—18.34, Jesse's Gleanings.— ? 1835, Nat. Hist. Obs. 

 Calend., ed. i?rown.— 183G, Nat. Hist. Ant. Calend., etc., notes hj Blyth.—ISZQ, Nat. Hist. Ant., 

 ed. Jardine.— 18'Xl, Nat. Hist. Ant. Calend. Misc. Obs., notes by Bennett— 1840, Nat. Hist., etc., 

 e&. Brown. — 1841, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady Dover, America?! reprint. — 1843, Nat. Hist., notes by 

 J^ew2/ns.— 1843, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. I?row?i.— 1845, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. -Brown.— ? 1851, Nat. Hist., 

 etc., ed. Jesse, suppl. ./arcZwie. — 1853, Nat. Hist. Ant. Obs. andCalend., notesbj" Jardiwe. — 1854, 

 Nat. Hist., etc., notes by TFood.— 1858, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. Blyth.—\8Q0, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady 

 Dover, American reprint. — ?1860. Nat. Hist., ed. Lady Dover (Pub. Soc. Difi'. Christ. Knowl.). — 

 1870 or 1871, the same.— 1875, Nat. Hist. Ant., etc., ed. Bennett, notes by Harting.—lS75, Nat. 

 Hist. Ant., ed. and notes by Buckland.—1816, the same. — 187G, Correspondence with Mar- 

 sham.— 1877, Nat. Hist. Ant., etc., 2 vols., ed. Bell.— 187Q, Nat. Hist, and Calend., with notes 

 by Davies. — ^Besides these, there are some half-dozen reissues, separately dated, of the Har- 

 per (American) reprint ; and I also hear of one or two editions, character unknown to me, be- 

 tween 1876 and 1879. 

 1701, Axox. (Albix, E., siohn from.) The | History of | Singing Birds I coJitaining 

 I An exact Description of their | Habits & Customs | & their manner of con- 

 structing their nests | their times of Incubation | With the peculiar excel- 



