[4], xxv, [1], 68, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 26 cm. (4to)
Type:
Classification
Early works to 1800
Date:
1781
Notes:
Advertisement of this edition and dedication of 1st edition, included here, signed: Thomas Pennant.
Engraved t.p., with vignette.
First published in Edinburgh, 1773, without plates.
"Explanation of the figure on the title-page"--P. [xxvi].
Page 11 misnumbered 15.
Errata: at foot of p. 68.
Signatures: [a]² B-N⁴.
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 489
Anker, J. Bird books, no. 396
Also available online.
SCNHRB has three copies, all bound-with but apparently bound subsequent to publication: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, par le comte de Buffon, and Les planches enluminées systematically displayed. London : Printed for B. White and Son ..., 1786.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015709769) stamped on 2nd front free endpaper: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 253296. Inscribed in ink on verso of t.p.: C.W.R.
SCNHRB c. 1 has tree-calf binding, title in gilt within red leather label on rebacked spine; housed in an archival cardboard box.
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015709801) has armorial bookplate of John David La Touche.
SCNHRB c. 2 inscribed in ink on 2nd front free endpaper: A. Wetmore.
SCNHRB c. 2 bound in green-stained calf, gilt Greek key roll at edges of boards, title in gilt within red leather spine label, gilt ornaments within compartments of raised bands on spine, yellow edges, marbled endpapers.
SCNHRB c. 3 (39088015709843) has 7 plates, from an unidentified edition of Histoire naturelle, bound-in throughout.
SCNHRB c. 3 has bookplate of Samuel P. Fowler, Danvers, Mass.
SCNHRB c. 3 has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With the pencilled Tucker collation notes.
SCNHRB c. 3 half bound in recent black goatskin and red paste-paper, title in gilt within red leather spine label; housed in a linen-covered drop-back box.
