Modest price paid for 1789 copy of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne at American online auction

                                                

A sale price of $537 (about £404) was achieved for this 1789 copy of the  The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne at an online auction conducted by the New York branch of Bonham's auction house. The volume might have achieved more had it not been devalued by its worn covers, fingermarks, an ownership inscription and  writing in the margins of some of the pages. Author the Rev Gilbert White (1720-1793) is probably the best-known English naturalist of the 18th Century.