New Naturalist
Numbers 78-83
£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild and Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists; The Natural History of Pollination. London: HarperCollins, 1992-6. 6 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, jacket spines variably faded [Bernhard & Loe NN78A-83A], together with a second edition of number 82 (The New Naturalists), 2005
Footnote
Note: First editions of numbers 78-83 in the New Naturalist series, each respectively one of 1601, 1401, 1404, 1400, 1489 and 1472 copies printed. The copy of The New Naturalists (number 82) contains an autograph letter signed from the author Peter Marren to Dr I. D. Pennie dated 1995 and concerning the non-inclusion of Seton Gordon's The Golden Eagle in the New Naturalist Monographs series.
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).