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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: The Brown Owl (Syrnium Aluco).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/165-The-Brown-Owl-q75-183x200.jpg "[picture: The Brown Owl (Syrnium Aluco).]")
The Brown Owl (Syrnium Aluco).
“When brown owls hoot their throats swell as big as a hen’s egg. I have known an owl of this species live a full year without any water. Perhaps the case may be the same with all birds of prey. When owls fly they stretch out their legs behind them as a balance to their large heavy heads, for as most nocturnal birds have large eyes and ears they must [...] [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Wych Elm.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/008-Wych-Elm-q75-173x200.jpg "[picture: Wych Elm.]")
“In the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the north-west of the village [of Selborne], on the white malms, stood within these twenty years a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, ulmus folio latissimo scabro of Ray, which, though it had lost a considerable leading bough in the great storm in the year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, yet, when felled, contained eight loads of lumber; and being too bulky for a carriage, was sawn off at seven feet above the butt, where it measured near eight feet in the diameter. This elm I mention to show to what a bulk planted elms may attain; as this tree must [...] [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
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