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Pages
586

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Table of Contents

v. 1. Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds
v. 2. Class II. Birds.

Edition Notes

Preface signed: Thomas Pennant.

Plates signed: P. Brown, del.; Ch. Cordiner pinx.; M. Griffiths del.; G. Low, pinx.; P. Mazell sculp.; P. Paillore pinx.; G. Stubbs pinx.

Etched title vignettes, side-notes; press figures.

Paged continuously.

Errata: p. [13] of 3rd page group, v. 2.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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SCNHRB has two copies, both printed on laid paper.

SCNHRB c. 1 (v. 1: 39088013488697 ; v. 2: 39088013488739 ) has armorial bookplate: Sir Lambert Blackwell, Bart.

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamped on t.p.: Mearns Collection, Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 234393. With Mearn's ink signature on t.p.'s and ms. annotations and corrections in ink and pencil.

SCNHRB c. 1 of v. 2 has ms. notes by Mearns ([6] p.) laid in, on printed letterhead stationery from Mearns House, Highland Falls, N.Y., office of Edgar A. Mearns, M.D.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on verso of t.p.'s: Smithsonian Library Oct 7 1957.

SCNHRB c. 1 of v. 2 is bound with: Pennant, Thomas. Supplement to the Arctic Zoology. London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1787. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCNHRB c. 1 is large paper copy, bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine.

SCNHRB c. 2 (v. 1: 39088013488770; v. 2: 39088013488812) has the first map from the Supplement bound at the beginning of v. 1 and the second map at the front of v. 2.

SCNHRB c. 2 from the collection of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Marcia Brady Tucker. With the Tucker collational notes on the t.p.'s.

SCNHRB c. 2 of v. 2 is bound with: Pennant, Thomas. Supplement to the Arctic Zoology. London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1787. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in speckled calf binding, re-backed spine with title in gilt within black leather spine label, marbled endpapers; measures 25 cm.

Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
QL105 .P45 1784

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 v. ([8], CC, [6], 185, [1]; [187]-586, [14] p., XXIII [i.e. 24] leaves of plates (1 folded)) :
Number of pages
586

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24354791M
Internet Archive
arcticzoology217851787penn
LCCN
16000168
OCLC/WorldCat
5533959

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15368363W

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