Author: Pennant, Joseph. Title: History of Quadrupeds.
Description: London: printed for B. White, Fleet Street, 1781. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Two volumes. I: Engraved title with the crest (head of a Barbary Antelope) and motto of Thomas Pennant; [ii], xxiv, [vi], 284pp.; II: Engraved title with vignette of a Sea Otter; [ii], 285-566, [xiv]pp. Second Edition (revised and enlarged; first published as Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chester 1771, with 31 plates). Contemporary calf, repaired. With engraved titles and 52 engraved plates. I: Engraved title with the crest (head of a Barbary Antelope) and motto of Thomas Pennant and engraved plates I-XXXII, plus an engraved vignette on p. 92; II: Engraved title with vignette of a Sea Otter; 285-566 and engraved plates XXXIII-LII, plus an engraved vignette on p. [513]. With the armorial bookplate of Whiting. ESTC T113535. Very Good.
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Price: US$ 1000.00 Seller: Sam Gatteņo Books
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