2 volumes. xxx, 306; 324, [14] pp. Engraved title-pages (no printed title-pages, as issued); 111 copper engravings. (4to) 24.1x18.8 cm (9½x7½"), speckled calf boards rebacked in modern speckled calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, morocco lettering piece, raised bands, red silk ribbons. Third Edition. First published in 1771 as ’Synopsis of Quadrupeds’. The fine etched plates are by Irish painter and engraver Peter Mazell Pennant presents his phylogenetic method, dividing quadrupeds into the hoofed, the digitated, the pinnated, and the winged. In the preface Pennant reviews previous studies of the four-footed kingdom undertaken by his predecessors, amongst whom were Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, John Ray Jacob Theodore Klein, Mathurin Jacques Brisson and Carl Linnaeus. Of Linnaeus, Pennant writes, "I reject his first division, which he calls PRIMATES, or Chiefs of the Creation; because my vanity will not suffer me to rank mankind with Apes, Monkies, Maucaucos, and Bats, the companions Linnaeus has allotted us even in his last system..." A few plates bound in at variance to the Catalogue of Plates, notably the Aye Aye plate bound in at the end of Volume II.
2 volumes. xxx, 306; 324, [14] pp. Engraved title-pages (no printed title-pages, as issued); 111 copper engravings. (4to) 24.1x18.8 cm (9½x7½"), speckled calf boards rebacked in modern speckled calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, morocco lettering piece, raised bands, red silk ribbons. Third Edition. First published in 1771 as ’Synopsis of Quadrupeds’. The fine etched plates are by Irish painter and engraver Peter Mazell Pennant presents his phylogenetic method, dividing quadrupeds into the hoofed, the digitated, the pinnated, and the winged. In the preface Pennant reviews previous studies of the four-footed kingdom undertaken by his predecessors, amongst whom were Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, John Ray Jacob Theodore Klein, Mathurin Jacques Brisson and Carl Linnaeus. Of Linnaeus, Pennant writes, "I reject his first division, which he calls PRIMATES, or Chiefs of the Creation; because my vanity will not suffer me to rank mankind with Apes, Monkies, Maucaucos, and Bats, the companions Linnaeus has allotted us even in his last system..." A few plates bound in at variance to the Catalogue of Plates, notably the Aye Aye plate bound in at the end of Volume II.
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