Verlag: Origin, 2019
ISBN 10: 1912476010 ISBN 13: 9781912476015
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Birlinn General, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 1998
ISBN 10: 1874744882 ISBN 13: 9781874744887
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Originally published in 1776, Thomas Pennant's "Tour in Scotland and 18th century. Written after his five month journey through mainland Scotland and the Western Isles in the summer of 1772, Pennant paints a vivid picture of Scotland during the last quarter of the 18th century. Pennant had an eye for detail, and the account of his journeys includes a wealth of material regarding the physical features of the landscape, architectural details of buildings and the historical associations and local customs of the places he visited. He also writes of the people he met and the places he stayed, thus adding a human dimension to his travelogue. Within this text, Pennant also writes of his travels in the north of England, including descriptions of the medieval towns of Chester and Durham and the magnificent landscape of the Lake District.the Western Isles " is one of the major pieces of travel writing from the. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016709897 ISBN 13: 9781016709897
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1022660365 ISBN 13: 9781022660366
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Experience the beauty and wonder of Scotland and the Hebrides through the eyes of Thomas Pennant, a renowned Welsh naturalist and traveler. This book documents Pennant's tour of Scotland, including his journey to the Hebrides, and is filled with detailed descriptions of the landscape, flora, and fauna of the region. A must-read for travelers, nature enthusiasts, and history buffs.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016348096 ISBN 13: 9781016348096
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016700571 ISBN 13: 9781016700573
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Shortridge Books Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356209815 ISBN 13: 9781356209811
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: Lost Research Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356208703 ISBN 13: 9781356208708
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021074586 ISBN 13: 9781021074584
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016342969 ISBN 13: 9781016342964
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 110807541X ISBN 13: 9781108075411
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The naturalist Thomas Pennant published this genial account of his journey through Scotland and its islands in 1774.
Verlag: Benj. White; Benjamin White, London, 1776
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Thomas Pennant's expansive travel works exploring the beauties of Scotland and the Hebrides, illustrated throughout. Complete in three volumes.Volume I is the fourth edition, Volume II the second, and Volume III the first.Volume I is illustrated with an engraved title, one folding map, one folding plate, and forty-one plates.Volume II is illustrated with an engraved title, seven folding plates, and thirty-seven plates.Volume III is illustrated with an engraved title, four folding plates, and forty-plates. Collated completeA beautiful topographical work, following the author across a tour in Scotland and a voyage to the Hebrides. The trips were undertaken in 1772, vividly describing the landscape towards the end of the eighteenth century.By Thomas Pennant, a naturalist and antiquarian, known for his many fantastic and acclaimed works. His works influenced the writings of Samuel Johnson.Bookplate of T. & M. James to the front paste down.Ink inscription of M. H. Graham to the recto of the front endpapers, dated 1791. In a rebacked tree calf binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the spines and extremities. Front hinges are starting but firm. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Ink inscription to the verso of the front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots. Folding map to Volume I is repaired and edge worn, with a small chip to the tail. Tape repair to the reverse of the plate facing page 108 in Volume II. Very Good. book.
Verlag: Printed for W. Eyres; Printed by John Monk; Printed for Benj. White., Warrington; Chester; London, 1774
Anbieter: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
3 vols., 4to, pp. xiii, [i], 388, [2, ads] + 21 plates; viii, 379, [1, ad] + engraved title-page, 1 map and 43 plates; 34, iv, 481, [1] + engraved title-page, 1 map and 46 plates. Modern half red morocco, red cloth boards, spines divided by raised bands and lettered direct in gilt. Plates offset to facing pages, else just a touch of spotting. An attractive set of Pennant?s account of his two tours of Scotland in 1769 and 1772, comprising the first quarto edition, for which new plates were produced, of the account of the 1769 Tour, and first editions of the 2 volumes delineating the 1772 Tour. Our third volume also contains the separately-paginated 34-page ?Additions? section following the engraved title-page, which ESTC records separately but which has its plates included in the plate-list for the main volume and is often found bound together with it. ?In 1769 Pennant undertook a tour of Scotland, chiefly of the highlands, a region then little known by outsiders yet of interest for its natural history. Motivated by favourable critical reaction to his 1769 Tour. Pennant undertook a second tour of Scotland in 1772. It is best understood as a complement to his earlier Scottish work and the culmination of a longer enterprise designed to describe and understand Scotland. The first volume of Pennant's 1772 Tour influenced Samuel Johnson, then engaged in writing his own Journey, just as the 1769 work had been a prompt to Johnson's Hebridean travels with Boswell? (ODNB). ESTC T113910; T113907; T113911; T113908.
Verlag: W. Eyres (vol. 1) and Chester, John Monk (vol. 2), Warrington, 1774
Anbieter: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australien
Two volumes, quarto; engraved frontispieces and numerous plates, original eighteenth century sprinkled calf with handsome nineteenth century spines; double leather labels and panelled in gilt between raised bands. A good set of Pennant's account of his travels in the north. The first volume is in its third edition, while the second volume is in the preferred second edition, the only version to include Joseph Banks' account of Staffa and Fingal's Cave. Pennant visited Scotland in 1769, his "Tour in Scotland" appearing for the first time in 1771. When Banks set out for Iceland in 1772, first travelling to the Scottish isles, he was conscious of the fact that Pennant, on his second tour of Scotland, was also travelling in the Hebrides. Feeling that Pennant had a prior claim to that region, he wrote: "I believe that we passed the Ship of our friend Mr. Pennant which I had all along carefully looked out for not without hopes if I should be fortunate enough to meet him of tempting [him] to enlarge his plan & wishing much to spare him at all events that as I had looked upon myself while among these Islands as treading upon ground which by prior right he has taken possession of I should communicate to him every Observation I could possibly make whenever he thought fit to publish any account of them". During his voyage to Iceland, Banks "discovered" the island of Staffa, one of the Hebrides, which Pennant could not visit on his tour. Pennant included in his travelogue the account of Staffa which Banks had given him. He dedicated the book to Banks, thanking him for "the liberal declaration.that the Hebrides were [Pennant's] ground". When Banks was elected as president of the Royal Society in 1778, it was with Pennant's influential support. Banks's account of Staffa (vol. 2 pp. 261-71) includes his famous description of Fingal's Cave, with three accompanying engravings of the geological phenomenon. These, like most of the prolific engravings in the work, were after drawings by Pennant's personal artist, Moses Griffith, who travelled with him., Thomas Pennant, born in 1726, was a prominent ornithologist and zoologist and prolific author of the eighteenth century. His writings about natural history, topography and travel were based on his many tours of the British Isles and research into the world's animal kingdom. It was said that his writings achieved great success by always making dull scientific matters interesting. Samuel Johnson spoke of him as "the best traveller I ever read, he observes more things than anyone else does". His circle of friends included Captain Cook as well as Banks; in 1771 he visited Banks shortly after he returned from his voyage around the world on the Endeavour, and took away with him some of the specimens that Banks had bought back from the voyage, which he would later write about. The origin of the name Pennant Hills in the Cumberland area has long been debated. In recent times it has been argued that it was named after Thomas Pennant who, apart from being an associate of Banks, was a member of the Royal Society and known to senior people in the infant colony, including Francis Grose the lieutenant-governor. . Slight wear at top of spines; a few creases and repaired tears but in very good condition.
Verlag: London, White, 1776
Anbieter: Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat Köln Dr. Sebastian Peters UG, Köln, Deutschland
Zustand: gut. Vol. 1: VII, 439 S.; vol. 2: IV, 481, 34 S.; vol. 3: Faltkarte (mit restauriertem Riss), VI, 400 S., zus. 131 Taf., 25 x 20 cm, moderne Halbledereinbände leicht berieben, gebräunt, teilweise leicht fleckig, leichter Nikotingeruch. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London, & Chester: Benjamin White, & John Monk, 1790 & 1772, 1790
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
A handsome set of the fifth edition of Pennant's two famous tours of Scotland, accompanied here by a first edition of the scarce Supplement. Originally published in 1771 and 1774, the tours "did much to strengthen a growing perception of a common British identity, and served to make remote areas of the British Isles recognisable to southern readers" (British Library). Pennant's Scottish books range in topics from natural history - a particular passion - to topographic descriptions, botanic and geologic observations and "snippets of history and commentary on local customs" (ODNB). Samuel Johnson was inspired by Pennant to undertake his own tour with Boswell in the summer of 1773, and spoke of him as "the best traveller I ever read, he observes more things than anyone else does". A word should also be spared for Pennant's personal draughtsman, Moses Griffith, who made the sketches which form the basis for the engravings in both works and whom Pennant referred to as "My Treasure". It is tempting to think of him as playing a sort of artistic Sancho Panza to Pennant's polymath Don Quixote. Provenance: with the armorial bookplates of John Waldie (1781-1862). After attending the University of Edinburgh, the multi-faceted Waldie, from an old Border gentry family, assumed the administration of Hendersyde Park at Kelso, Roxburghshire. Like Pennant, he travelled widely and kept journals of his tours. An accomplished tenor, Waldie performed at private entertainments with Angelica Catalani, Michael Kelly, and John Braham; he met the composer Rossini; and socialized with such well-known actors as John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons. In 1859 he published a catalogue of the extensive and diverse artworks and library at Hendersyde Park, a testament to Waldie's taste and refinement. Tour: ESTC T110282 & T110281; Supplement: ESTC T81075 (9 locations only). 4 vols., 3 quarto (241 x 184 mm), Supplement octavo (205 x 124 mm). Contemporary tree calf, vol. I skilfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, smooth spines divided by quadriglyph and metope rolls, compartments with foliate cornerpieces enclosing central cross motif, black and olive green twin labels, gilt edge roll, blue speckled edges; Supplement bound in contemporary blue combed paste paper, calf spine. Folding map, vignette title pages, and all plates present as called for. Neat presentation inscription on front free endpapers, dated 1936. Professional repair to back joint and headcap of vol. III, corners and foot of spine of vol. II. A very good set, crisp and clean.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1778
Anbieter: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1778 Book Hardcover Very Good Fourteen quarto volumes, bound in half brown Morocco and tan buckram the endpapers are thin card with one-sided sugar-paper finish The set was given as a gift in March 1926 (ink inscriptions on each first leaf, and several have also the pencilled inscription "Rebound Sept 1925" Blind-embossed raised bands and decorative "cartouches", titles in gilt, publication dates in gilt at foot of spines, ranging from 1778 to 1801 Top edges red-speckled, other edges untrimmed in most volumes many maps and plates, some folding, some hand-coloured in outline A very clean, noble and stoutly-bound set, some foxing in particular areas, chiefly, as usual, to early and late leaves and plates This is a preliminary listing Detailed collation to follow or on request Inspection is invited (by appointment, please) Obviously a VERY heavy set, which would cost some £200 or more to send safely outside the UK An extra charge may also need to be made for inland postage or carriage.