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![[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]")
Pictures from The Natural History of Selborne by The Rev. Gilbert White (1788). See the title page for more information about the book.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Gilbert White.
Title: The Natural History of Selborne
Published by: Frederick Warne & Co.
City: London
Date: 1879
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]")
Front Cover, Gilbert White’s Selbourne
Light brown with green florets, and “Natural History of Selbourne” in blakc on a gold foil background. [$]
![[picture: The Raven (Corvus Corax)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/234-The-Raven-Corvus-Corax-q75-178x200.jpg "[picture: The Raven (Corvus Corax)]")
There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens tht must draw the attention even of the most incurious—they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and, when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling ot the ground. When [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: bird, a magpie]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/235-the-magpie-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: bird, a magpie]")
Magpies and jays flutter with powerless wings, and make no dispatch; herons seem incumbered with too much sail for their light bodies; but these vast hollow wings are necessary in carrying burdens, such as large fishes, and the like; pigeons, and particularly the sort called smiters, have a way of clashing their wings the one against the other over [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-title-page-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)]")
Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)
The title page of the 1879 edition is as follows: [more...] [$]
![[picture: View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop Wallpaper]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-frontispiece-View-Near-Selborne-detail-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop Wallpaper]")
View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop Wallpaper
A detail taken from the Frontispiece showing the deer under the tree, with ducks swimming on a pond in the background. [more...] [$]
Pictures from The Natural History of Selborne by The Rev. Gilbert White (1788). See the title page for more information about the book.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Gilbert White.
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