Pennant, Thomas

估價

5,000 - 7,000 USD

招標截止

描述

Pennant, Thomas
[History of Quadrupeds. London: B and J. White, 1793]
Ink, paper and cow

Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 230 mm.). Title vignette and 111 proof plates, engraved by Mazell, on large paper. Rare and light foxing and spotting. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Kalthoeber (booklabel), gilt fillets on panels, double bands.

來源

William Beckford (Sotheby's London, 6 May 1817, lot 289) — George Chetwynd (Bookplate and Glendon Hall blind-stamp on first plate) — H.J.B. Clements (Bookplate; Sotheby's London, 4 July 1966, lot 233). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

出版

Dibdin, Bibliomania, 1811, pp. 594, 595, 596

拍品資料及來源

Very rare complete set of the proof plates on large paper from Pennant's History of the Quadrupeds, elegantly bound by Kalthoeber.

The only other copy we were able to trace was sold in 1803 in the Bibliotheca Woodhousiana, sold by Leigh and Sotheby, December 1803, lot 640. Dibdin chose the copy as one of the most valuable books of the collection.