History of Quadrupeds. BOUND With Genera of British Birds. (3 Vols bound as 2, complete)

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Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green and red leather labels. Internally, board edges in gilt, some offsetting, Armorial bookplates of John Harrison to fpds, engraved titlepages. Vol 1, (xxiv), [1], 284 pp, 33 B&W plates (including the eng tp), 1 illustration within text. Vol 2, [2], 285-566 pp, [14] index, 22 plates, 1 illustration within text. Was an expansion on his 1771 -Synopsis of Quadrupeds- . BOUND WITH Genera of Birds, London B White, 1781, 2nd ed (1st was published in 1773), engraved title page with vignette, [6], [1], (ii-xxv), [1] explanation, [1], 2-68 pp, [2], 16 plates. Some light water staining and browning, not detracting. A very desirable set. (ESTC T113535 & T862. Brunet 489. Allibone 1553) Pennant, naturalist, traveller, and writer, who for one modern scholar should be considered 'the leading British zoologist after Ray and before Darwin' (Beer, vi). See ODNB