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[PENNANT, Thomas]. Genera of Birds. Printed for B. WHITE, London, 1781.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second Edition, xxv + 70pp, engraved title & 13 full page engraved plates [lacking 3 plates], bound in new old-style quarter calf with marbled boards, spine with gilt lining and decoration, title label on black morocco with gilt lettering, very good condition, Printed for B. WHITE, London, 1781.

Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom

PENNANT, Thomas. GENERA OF BIRDS. London Printed for B. White 1781, 1781.

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Description: FIRST EDITION Small 4to. hardback (approx. 23.5 x 19cm) in dark blue buckram library binding, gilt, with blind-embossed coat of arms to upper board. Marbled endpapers and all edges spattered in red. 68pp. Text plus 2pp. Index. Illustrated with 16 fine engraved plates (Numbers III and IV on same page) plus an engraved vignette to title page. Some light offsetting from plates but engravings themselves mainly clean and crisp with just occasional spots of foxing. Plate XV of a Pelecan (sic.) has large closed tear, neatly repaired. Ex. Library with attractive large bookplate to front pastedown and a couple of purple rubber stamps to blanks. Text pages have occasional foxing and handling marks, heavier to prelims. Spine has white library stock number hand-painted at foot. A VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 4) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

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Thomas Pennant. Genera of Birds. B. White. London, 1781.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Small quarto. 70 pages inc. index. 16 engravings complete as called for, numbers 3 and 4 to a single leaf. Rebound in half mottled leather with marble boards. Internally an excellent example of a book of this age. The engraved plates are fine and clean and the book is, tight and free from names, inscriptions, or other marks.

Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom

PENNANT, Thomas (1726-1798).. Genera of Birds.. London: B. White, 1781., 1781.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Small 4to., (10 x 7 ¾ inches). Engraved vignette title page, Advertisement. Fine engraved frontispiece, 14 engraved plates (some browning and spotting). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (spine quite worn with loss, overall worn). Provenance: Ink library stamps to first few pages. First illustrated edition, first published without illustrations in Edinburgh in 1773. Pennant was a Welsh naturalist best known for his acclaimed books "British Zoology," the "History of Quadrupeds," "Arctic Zoology," and "Indian Zoology." "The naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant (1726-98) helped popularise British ornithology by meticulously compiling and arranging existing research. At the age of twelve, Pennant had been given Francis Willughby's Ornithology (1678), to which he credited his lifelong love of natural history. His own writings on ornithology are heavily based on the classification system devised by Willughby and John Ray, which divides birds primarily into land birds and waterfowl. Although Pennant's brief, accessible book brought few original insights to the field, it boosted public interest in the study and classification of birds. The detailed descriptions of the appearance and habits of each bird are enlivened by the author's elegant turns of phrase. This better-known 1781 version of the 1773 original includes fifteen fine engravings [as here]" (Cambridge introduction). The birds included in this volume are: Crested Hobby (frontis), White Collared Parrot, Capreows Jackamar and Yellow-cheeked-creeper (in one plate), Red-Headed King-Fisher, Green Tody and Brown Today (in one plate), Indian Bee Eater, Honeysuckers, Purple Chatterer, Crested Manakin and Golden Headed M. (in one plate), Dwarf Curlew, Little Sandpiper, Spanish Duck, Patagonian Pinguin [sic], Pelecan [sic], and Frigat Pelecan [sic]. Anker 396; Nissen IVB 712; Zimmer, p. 489.

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

[Pennant, Thomas]. Genera of Birds. B. White, London, 1781.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Engraved title page with bird illustration, followed by 68 pages, plus index and sixteen engraved plates of which Nos III and IV are on a single leaf. Rebacked in modern leather mimicking an 18th century style. Slightly raised spine bands with gilt stamped lettering. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, and Leather over corners. Marbled paper over boards is rubbed and shows a few small surface tears. Previous owners book plate on front paste down. Offsetting from binders glue affecting the corners of end leaves and just a little on the corners of the first and last leaf of contents. Scattered, very slight, foxing. Some offsetting from illustrations. Volume remains tight and very attractive.

Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.

[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798. History of Quadrupeds. BOUND With Genera of British Birds. (3 Vols bound as 2, complete). B White, Fleet Street, London, 1781.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green and red leather labels. Internally, board edges in gilt, some offsetting, Armorial bookplates of John Harrison to fpds, engraved titlepages. Vol 1, (xxiv), [1], 284 pp, 33 B&W plates (including the eng tp), 1 illustration within text. Vol 2, [2], 285-566 pp, [14] index, 22 plates, 1 illustration within text. Was an expansion on his 1771 -Synopsis of Quadrupeds- . BOUND WITH Genera of Birds, London B White, 1781, 2nd ed (1st was published in 1773), engraved title page with vignette, [6], [1], (ii-xxv), [1] explanation, [1], 2-68 pp, [2], 16 plates. Some light water staining and browning, not detracting. A very desirable set. (ESTC T113535 & T862. Brunet 489. Allibone 1553) Pennant, naturalist, traveller, and writer, who for one modern scholar should be considered ‘the leading British zoologist after Ray and before Darwin’ (Beer, vi). See ODNB

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

PENNANT Thomas 1726-1798. Pennants Works: Tour in Wales; Genera of Birds; Arctic Zoology; Chester to London; Tour in Scotland; Indian Zoology; History of London; Whiteford and Holywell; Downing to Alston-Moor; London to the Isle of Wight.. Various, London, 1781.

Price: US$18193.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Greatest Welsh Travel Writer of the Eighteenth Century. A Fine Set of Ten Works by Pennant 14 quarto volumes, with numerous plates (three hand coloured) and five large folding maps. A very attractive set uniformly bound, with some variations in height and width, in contemporary diced Russia with gilt ruled borders, spine compartments richly gilt, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers. Seven volumes have been expertly rebacked retaining the original spines, Scattered foxing and offsetting. Old annotations to the lower margin of Yy2 in Chester to London, tear to lower margin of Ii4 of first volume of Tour in Wales. From the library of Baron Tweedmouth & A & E Seale. Comprising of the following titles: A Tour in Wales. London: Henry Hughs, 1778. Two volumes. First edition with sixty-nine full-page engravings (twelve folding) Genera of Birds. London: B. White, 1781. Second and best edition with sixteen plates. Arctic Zoology. London: Henry Hughs, 1784-87. Three volumes in two. First edition with twenty-four plates and two folding maps. The Journey from Chester to London. London: B. White, 1782. First edition with twenty-two plates. A Tour in Scotland. London: B. White, 1790. Three volumes. Fifth edition with 130 plates and a folding map. Indian Zoology. London: Henry Hughs, 1790. Second edition with seventeen plates. Bound with: The Literary Life of Thomas Pennant. London: B. & J. White, 1793. First edition with two plates (one hand-coloured). History of London. London: Robert Faulder, 1791. Second edition with frontispiece portrait, folding view and thirteen plates. The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. London: B. & J. White, 1796. First edition with twenty-three plates. A Tour from Downey to Alston-Moor. London: Oriental Press, 1801. First edition with thirty-six plates. A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight. London: Oriental Press, 1801. Two volumes in one. First edition (large paper issue) with forty-seven plates and two folding colour maps. Plate for Chillingworth substituted with one for Harvey. Overall, an exceptionally attractive set. A fine, representative set of Pennant's works, which includes the highlights of his diverse interests. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) made good use of his pen as a natural historian, topographer, antiquary, and scientist. Pennant oversaw every aspect of the publication of his work, even personally selecting illustrators. His powers of observation as a naturalist were used to equal effect as a traveller and he is regarded as the greatest Welsh travel writer of the eighteenth century. Johnson proclaimed him "the best traveller I ever read; he observes more things than anyone else does" (DNB). Besides his Tours, he published widely on natural history subjects from all over the world, gathering information from a number of primary sources which, as a highly respected member of the London scientific community, he was well paced to do. The sheer scope of his endeavour is truly remarkable. The Genera of Birds, a systematic listing of ninety-five species according to the Linnean system of classification, is a model of its kind. Called the 'leading zoologist and antiquary of his time' (Whittell), he met Joseph banks in 1766; they formed a friendship that took them on many excursions. It was Banks who gave Pennant the Australian birds which were in his collection when John Latham described them. In 1790, Latham named Psittacus pennanti in Pennant's honour.

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom