Lot 148
New Naturalist
Numbers 72-77
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes; The Hebrides; The Soil. London: Collins, 1986-92. 6 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, jacket spines sunned [Bernhard & Loe NN72A-77A]
Footnote
Notes: First editions, numbers 72-77 in the New Naturalist series, each respectively one of 880, 1850, 1500, 1470, 1500 and 1481 copies printed. Heathlands (72) and The New Forest (73) are both in the first-issue dust jackets each retaining 'Collins' to the foot of the spine-panel, removed for the later Bookclub edition. (Bernhard and Loe cite no such issue-point for the subsequent volumes.)
Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).