PENNANT, Thomas (1726-1798)]. The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March for The Cymmrodorian Society, [1761]-1766. 2° (560 x 385mm). Title printed in red and black. 132 hand-coloured etched plates by Peter Mazell after Barlow, Peter Brown Charles Collins F.A. Desmoulins, George Edwards G. Haulner, and Peter Paillou and coloured by Paillou [cf. Anker]. (Occasional light offsetting to text, occasional light marginal soiling.) Late 18th-century half russia, spine gilt (joints cracked, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed). Provenance : Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1937, lot 375). FIRST EDITION, LOWTHER COPY, UNCUT with deckle edges. Pennant's pioneering work, and that which established him as a leading European natural historian, was originally issued with 107 plates and supplemented by an appendix of 25 plates, all here present. Five editions were published between 1766 and 1812; its success prompted Pennant's election to the Royal Society in 1767, the year he began the correspondence with Gilbert White which eventually formed part of White's Natural History of Selborne (1789). Anker 392; BM(NH) IV, p.1543; Brunet IV, 478; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.131; Lowndes p.1823; Mullens and Swann pp.465-466; Nissen IVB 710; Wood p.515; Zimmer pp.487-488.
PENNANT, Thomas (1726-1798)]. The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March for The Cymmrodorian Society, [1761]-1766. 2° (560 x 385mm). Title printed in red and black. 132 hand-coloured etched plates by Peter Mazell after Barlow, Peter Brown Charles Collins F.A. Desmoulins, George Edwards G. Haulner, and Peter Paillou and coloured by Paillou [cf. Anker]. (Occasional light offsetting to text, occasional light marginal soiling.) Late 18th-century half russia, spine gilt (joints cracked, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed). Provenance : Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1937, lot 375). FIRST EDITION, LOWTHER COPY, UNCUT with deckle edges. Pennant's pioneering work, and that which established him as a leading European natural historian, was originally issued with 107 plates and supplemented by an appendix of 25 plates, all here present. Five editions were published between 1766 and 1812; its success prompted Pennant's election to the Royal Society in 1767, the year he began the correspondence with Gilbert White which eventually formed part of White's Natural History of Selborne (1789). Anker 392; BM(NH) IV, p.1543; Brunet IV, 478; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.131; Lowndes p.1823; Mullens and Swann pp.465-466; Nissen IVB 710; Wood p.515; Zimmer pp.487-488.
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