History of Quadrupeds.

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1st ed, 52 pls, VG, small 4to. Two volumes in modern quarter calf with marbled boards, corners lightly bumped and worn, some blind tooling. New spines, raised bands, blind and decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to maroon leather labels. Internally, new endpapers, engraved title pages, text block edges sprinkled red. Vol 1, (xxiv), [1], 2-284 pp, 32 plates, 1 engraved tp, 1 vignette. Vol 2, [2], 285-566 pp, [14] index, 22 plates, 1 engraved tp, 1 vignette. a2-4 a couple of small marginal repairs to each leaf, U2 with slight torn margin, some light offsetting and spotting. A nice set. (ESTC T113535. Lowndes 18128. Brunet 489. Allibone 1553). Was an expansion on his 1771, -Synopsis of Quadrupeds- . Pennant, naturalist, traveller, and writer, who for one modern scholar should be considered 'the leading British zoologist after Ray and before Darwin' (Beer, vi), contributed greatly to organizing, popularizing, and promoting the study of natural history. See ODNB