The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

A London original in English: no UK-versus-US and no original-language precedence question arises. The real hazard is 'first thus'. Selborne is among the most reprinted natural-history books in English; the second edition did not appear until 1802 and the third in 1813, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced an unbroken stream of re-issues, many newly illustrated. Later editions also treat the twenty-six letters on antiquities inconsistently and sometimes drop the Antiquities section altogether, so a copy lacking the Antiquities material and its separate engraved title is certainly not the 1789 quarto.