john c scott (9 Ergebnisse)

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.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. pp. 222 Illus.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 216 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: New.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated; Charles Whymper; J. Wolf; A. Thorburn; Allen W. Seaby; H. Stannard; J. Maclair Boraston (illustrator). A wide ranging collection of 7 illustrated works on bird life, habitats and species, featuring several first editions. An uncommon and varied 7 volume collection of informative ornithological titles.Featuring 2 first editions - 'Nature-Tones and Undertones' and 'Lost and Vanishing Birds' - and several very scarce titles, in volumes 1, 4 and 7.Each work is punctuated with a large number of illustrations.Volume 1 features monochrome frontispiece and 15 further monochrome plates.Volume 2 features a monochrome frontispiece and 9 further monochrome plates.Volume 3 features a colour frontispiece and 18 further monochrome plates.Volume 4 features a colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates, as well as many vignette illustrations.Volume 5 features 37 monochrome plates.Volume 6 features a monochrome frontispiece with facsimile signature, and 10 further monochrome plates.Volume 7 features a monochrome frontispiece and 17 further monochrome plates. Collated, complete. Bound in original cloth. Externally, very smart. Mild shelf wear. Occasional mild age toning to end papers. Vol5 rear hinge slightly starting. Contemporary ink inscription to vol2 vol6, vol7 front free endpapers, vol3 front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Occasional strain. Pages generally bright and clean, with occasional spotting. Spotting to text block edges. Mark to vol2 p.5 and vol2 p.73. Vol2 rear free endpaper removed. Pen mark to one page of vol3. The odd leaf unopened. Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. 4to., pp.[x], 130 + 9 plates as called for. Half-title. Title-page repaired at top fore-edge corner, some toning transferred from plates onto facing pages. Half green sheep, gilt title to spine, marbled paper boards, edges sprinkled brown, marbled paste-downs but free endpapers replaced with plain blue. Joints worn, boards quite toned, corners a bit frayed, still very good. Edited by Pennant's son David and published posthumously. '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 whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry. While he is perhaps better remembered for his Scottish tours, his British Zoology and Arctic Zoology in particular were important pioneering works and established him in the eyes of contemporaries as a leading European natural historian. For one modern scholar Pennant should be considered 'the leading British zoologist after Ray and before Darwin' (Beer, vi).' (Withers, ODNB).

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 in his footsteps, and his work was highly regarded both in his lifetime and beyond (the tours through the North of England and studies of India were all published posthumously). Scarce.