Search Results: A Tour From Alston-Moor To Harrowgate, and Brimh… by Thomas 1726-1798 Pennant

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: No. 447, Strand.: John SCott, 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. GRIFFITH Moses 1747-1819. VG, 1st ed, 1804, 9 pls (of 9). In worn marbled boards. Re-spine, to style, gilt tooling & titles, new tips. Internally, [8], [1], 2-120 pp, 9 pls (of 9), light water stain to top outer corner of each plate, not affecting image, text block edges yellowed, leaves watermarked Neckinger Milll 1801 & 1800, plates dated 1801/3/4, small bookbinder label to epf. Left in manuscript ready for publication when Pennant died and was brought on by his son David Pennant. (229*293 mm). (The Library 1938). Pennant's travels and natural history are distinguished by his personal energy, a keen observational sense, and by methodological organization and attention to facts. In such ways, and in his friendship and widespread correspondence with others of like interests throughout Britain and Europe, he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century… Read More

London; Printed by C. Mercier and Co. for John Scott, 1804., 1804. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. [8], 130. 9 copper-engraved plates as called for. Full polished calf with 4 raised bands, gilt titles to maroon and black calf labels to spine, and floral decoration to compartment. Double gilt border to boards with floral border in blind within; gilt dentelles; marbled edges and endpapers. Blue silk placemarker. Binding slightly surface scuffed, with bruised corners. A little scattered foxing, mainly to endpapers and plate margins. No annotation or inscriptions. A clean copy in a handsome binding. Continuation of Pennant's "A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor" published in 1801 (Downing Hall in Flintshire was Pennant's country estate). Pennant (1726-98) was a Welsh naturalist and antiquarian, regarded as an authority in his time and cited by Thomas Bewick in his "History of British Birds"; numerous marine species were named in his honour. His tours into Scotland inspired Samuel Johnson to follow… Read More