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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: Partridges.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/018-Partridges-q75-211x200.jpg "[picture: Partridges.]")
“Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this forest [the forest of Wolmer, mostly in the parish of Selborne], into which they love to make excursions; and in particular, in the dry summers of 1740 and 1741, and some years after, they swarmed to such a degree that parties of unreasonable sportsmen killed twenty [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Barn Owl (<i>Strix flammea</i>)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/164-The-barn-Owl-q75-187x200.jpg "[picture: The Barn Owl (<i>Strix flammea</i>)]")
![[picture: The Osprey (Pandion)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/102-osprey-q70-174x200.jpg "[picture: The Osprey (Pandion)]")
![[picture: Frontispiece: View Near Selborne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-frontispiece-View-Near-Selborne-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: View Near Selborne]")
Frontispiece: View Near Selborne
View looking, I imagine, towards the distant Church in the village of Selborne. There are deer in the foreground, under the shade of a large tree. [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
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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