Lot 281

Pennant, Thomas




Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
£300
Description
Indian zoology, 1790 [1791]. Second edition, 16 engraved plates, lacks B1[?] [ESTC T856]; [bound with] [Idem] The literary life of the late Thomas Pennant, 1793. Portrait [ESTC T845]; [Idem] Arctic zoology, 1792. 3 volumes, second edition, 4to, 21 (of 27) plates (introductory volumes contains 6 plates and lacks frontispiece, volume 1 contains frontispiece, folding map and plates labelled 7-8 , volume 2 contains a folding map and 10 plates, lacking plate of Pied-billed Grebe), hole to pp.51-2 with loss of a couple of words [ESTC N7878]; Uniform 4to, contemporary calf gilt, bookplates, some spotting (4)



