New Naturalist
Numbers 1-69
£1,008
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Collins, 1945-83. 70 volumes (i.e. containing both editions of 6, Highlands and Islands), 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, a few volumes with ornithological bookplate of I. D. Pennie, early volumes with occasional customary fading to cloth and variable spotting to endpapers and jackets (chiefly to flaps), volumes 27-9, 38, 52, 63, 64, 65 and 67 jacket spines faded, 13 jacket with water-stains to spine-panel, a few small nicks and chips elsewhere
Footnote
Note: First editions of numbers 1-69 in the New Naturalist series, except numbers 1-4 and 58 (second impressions) and 47 (second edition); also included is the 1969 edition of Highlands and Islands (6), described as the second edition but effectively a new work. Butterflies (1) with an autograph letter signed from the author to Dr. I. D. Pennie ('Thank you for so kindly informing me that Pieris brassicae has now reached Foula ... It has been in the main islands of Shetland for several years past'); Insects (8) with a typed letter signed to Pennie from George R. Else of the British Museum department of entomology on bee specimens; Finches (55) with typed review of the work by Pennie.
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).