Lot 155
White, Francis Buchanan and others
The Scottish Naturalist: a Magazine of Scottish Natural History
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
[Volumes 11-30 titled The Annals of Scottish Natural History]. Perth: Perthshire Society of Natural Science [volumes 1-3, subsequent volumes Edinburgh or Perth, various publishers], 1871-1939, 1948-57, 1961-64. 70 volumes, bound in 36 plus 48 original bi-monthly parts for volumes 52-59 (i.e. years 1932-9), volumes 1-51 and 70-71 (i.e. 1871-1931 and 1961-4) each bound 2 volumes in 1, volumes 1-10 and 70-71 published biennially, no volumes issued in 1940-47 or 1958-60), 8vo, non-uniform contemporary cloth bindings (except volume 7/8, contemporary half calf, rubbed, and volumes 52-59 in original wrappers), numerous plates and maps (including lithographs, several of which in colours, halftone photographic prints, a Woodburytype photographic portrait, etc.), occasional ink-stamps of occasional ink-stamps of W. Anderson Smith of West Coast Fisheries to early volumes, volume 22/3 bound with volumes transposed.
Together with some 20 others, mainly ornithological offprints and bound volumes of offprints, some Scandinavian interest, many with the bookplate of Dr I. D. Pennie: Alexander Carte, Nidification of the Ivory Gull [from the Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, July, 1856] (contemporary half calf, chromolithographic plate); Robert Collett, Remarks on the Ornithology of Northern Norway ... From the Forhandl Vidensk Selkh. Christiania 1872 (contemporary half calf, folding map, bookplate of ornithologist G. E. Lodge); T. Bainbrigge Fletcher and C. M. Inglis, Some Common Indian Birds [reprinted from the Agricultural Journal of India], 15 parts in 1 volume, contemporary cloth, each part with colour plate; a sammelband with spine-title 'Collection of Ornithological Papers'; Knud Paludan, Alken [Auks], dens ynglebiologi og dens forekomst in Danmark, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1947 (original wrappers, plates, inscribed 'To Dr. Ian Pennie with compliments from Knud Paludan' on front wrappers; and similar
Footnote
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).