PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. oG7 



1789, Walcott, J. — Coutiuued. 



maker Ilow. Blackfriars, | For the Author: | And sold by Mess. Wliite aud 

 Sou, Fleet Street; | Robson aud Clarke, New-Bond Street; ( And J. Mathews, 

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

 250 illustrations, in the text, not numbered. 



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



"The following Work contains the description and manners of nearly all our British birds, 

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

 Work is entitled to, lies in the figures being faithful copies of nature ; and that it adds a little 

 to our knowledge of the manners of birds." (Extract 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 descriptions of these 

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

 page, tlio 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 plates. 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 be nearly that of the 

 Linnaean Systema Naturse, beginning with Tultur, and ending with Gaprimulgus. 



1769. [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 by 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. titlo-p., and 7 copper-pll., besides 

 one in text of p. oOT. 



Not seen : title from Newton, Notes and Queries, 5th ser., vii, Mar. 31, 1877, p. 241 ; which 

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



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

 endar" and "Observations," which were incorjiorated in 1802, flow numberless editions, 

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

 especially Newton, as just cited. 



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

 on p. V. of the "Advertisement". The pi. opp. p. 259 represents Charadrius himanfop'iis. 



"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 placed him among Eng- 

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

 History and Antiquities of Selbome, has only to be named to ensuie its respectful if not 

 rapturous reception by all classes." — Nat. 13 July, 1720 ; ob. 26 June, 1793. 



A summai'y notice of the editions of Selbome, etc., is given under 1877, Newton, A., q. v. 



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

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



1789, Nat. Hist. Ant. Selb., orig. ed.— 1792, German, ed. Jfej/er.— ? 1793, Nat. Hist. Ant.— 

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



wict.— 1813, Same, with Poems.— ?1822 (— ?=1802?)— ?1825 ?— 1829, Nat. Hist. Selb., ed. 



Jardine.— 1829, Nat. Hist. Selb., ed. Jardine.—USSO, Nat. Hist. Ant. — ?— 1832, Nat. Hist. Ant., 

 ed. Jardine. — 1833, Nat. Hist. Ant., notes by several, ed. Rennie. — 1833, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady 

 Dover.— 18ZZ, Nat. Hist. Obs. and Calend., ed. Brown.-? 1833, Nat. Hist. Ant., ed. Jardine.— 

 1834, Nitt. Hist. Obs. and Calend., ed. i?rown.— 1834, .Tesse's Gleanings.—? 1835, Nat. Hist. Obs. 

 Calend., ed. Brown.— 1836, Nat. Hist. Ant. Calend., etc., notes by i3;j/^yi.— 1836, Nat. Hist. Ant., 

 ed. Jardine.— 1837, Nat. Hist. Ant. Calend. Misc. Obs., notes by Bennett— 1840, Nat. Hist., etc., 

 C(\. Brown. — 1841, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady Dover, American reprint. — 1843, Nat. Hist., notes by 

 Jenj/n*.- 1843, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. Brown.— 1845, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. Brotvn.—! 1851, Nat. Hist., 

 etc., ed. Jesse, suppl. J"ar(iine. — 1853, Nat. Hist. Ant. Obs. and Calend., notes by J'ardine. — 1851, 

 Nat. Hist., etc., notes by TFood.— 1858, Nat. Hist., etc., ed. Blyth.~lSm, Nat. Hist., ed. Lady 

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

 1870 or 1871, the same. — 187.5, Nat. Hist. Ant., etc., ed. Bennett, notes by Harting.— 1875, Nat. 

 Hist. Ant., cd. and notes hy Buekland. — 1876, the same. — 1876, Correspondence with Mar- 

 sham.— 1877, Nat. Hist. Ant., etc., 2 vols., ed. J?«?^— 1879, Nat. Hist, and Calend., with notes 

 by Davies. — Besides these, there are some half-dozen reissaics, sep.uately dated, of the Har- 

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

 tween 1876 and 1879. 



179L Anon. (Albix, E., slolen from.) The | Hi,story of | Singing Birds I coi;taining 

 I An exact De.scription of their | Habits &, Customs | &. their manner of con- 

 structing their nests | their times of Incubation | With the ]>eculiar excel- 



