Thomas. A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX … Third Edition.

by PENNANT

£700 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

PENNANT, Thomas. A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX … Third Edition. Warrington: W. Eyres . 1774. [ with: ] A tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. Chester: John Monk . 1774. [ with: ] A tour in Scotland. MDCCLXXII. Part II. London: Benj. White . 1776. Three volumes, 4to. All in contemporary calf, gilt fillet to boards, rebacked to style, spines gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt; vol. I: pp. xiii, [1], 388, [2 (advertisement leaf)], with engraved vignette title, folding engraved map of Scotland, 21 engraved plates (8 folding) and one engraved illustration in text; vol.II: pp. [2], viii, 379, [1], with engraved vignette title, 44 engraved plates (28 folding); vol. III: pp. [2], iv, 481, [1 (blank)], 34,with engraved vignette title, 47 engraved plates (23 folding); all volumes with extremities a little worn, boards slightly rubbed, corners restored; some variable light spotting and offsetting, closed tears to inner margin of map (restored), but generally very good. Provenance : ‘W. Watton 1790’ to titles; nineteenth-century armorial bookplates of Charles Rutherford, with name cancelled and replaced in manuscript with ‘James Simson Melrose July 1852’, to front pastedowns. First quarto edition, third edition overall, illustrated with new plates of Thomas Pennant’s Tour in Scotland in 1769, and first edition of his 1772 tour in two volumes, including brief ‘Additions’ to the first book. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a naturalist, traveller, and write

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