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Lot No. 5: Pennant, Thomas

The View of Hindoostan

  • Medium: Printed book
  • Year: 1798 -1800
  • Size: 11.7 x 9.7 inches
  • Place: London

Winning Bid : ₹1,27,800

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Estimate

1,00,000 - 1,50,000


Estimate US$

1200-1800

Ends at Mar 14, 2024 07:08 PM IST

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Pennant, Thomas

The View of Hindoostan

Size: 29.8 x 24.8 cm (11.7 x 9.7 inches)

Western Hindoostan, Vol. II The View of Hindoostan - Eastern Hindoostan; Vol. III The View of India Extra Gangem, China and Japan; Vol. IV The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands
Printed by Henry Hughs / Luke Hanford, 1798 -1800. First edition, Large 4to, 2 volumes bound in 1. comprising:: Vol. 1. The View of Hindoostan: Western Hindoostan. [4], v, [11], 263, [10] pp. With 8 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece (3 of which are drawn & etched by James Sowerby; engraved headpiece. Vol. 2. The View of Hindoostan: Eastern Hindoostan. [12], 374, [13] pp. With 13 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece (1 hand-colored); engraved headpiece.

Together, 2 volumes bound in 1. Half leather over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, title label in gilt, all edges marbled, Large Paper Copy. Fine condition.
21 engraved plates (one hand colored), 3 folding maps, 2 vignettes. A very clean, complete, VG + set, of this important work on South & South East Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific.

The author intended to publish Outlines of the Globe as a fourteen volume set, but died after only two volumes had been published. His son saw the third and fourth volumes through the press, but they were issued without the plates that appeared in the first two volumes.

Pennant is best known for his tours through the British Isles and for his British and Arctic Zoologies, works which are "distinguished by his personal energy, a keen observational sense, and by methodological organization and attention to facts he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry" (ODNB). The present work, however, was "the only published outcome of twenty-two manuscript volumes of imaginary travels throughout the world. The first two volumes focused upon Hindustan and, although works of imagination, drew upon his knowledge of India and the writings of the explorer James Rennell" (ODNB). The set comprises of Western Hindoostan; Eastern Hindoostan; The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan; and The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands. This last volume includes a short preliminary history of Australia and Norfolk Island, including a folding map of New Holland with Van Dieemen's Land as a peninsula, and an account of New Guinea. "The first two volumes in this set though they are highly regarded, are not rare; however, the third and fourth volumes are quite scarce" (Hill). Ferguson 278: Hill 1321.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
Nickname Amount(Rs) Type Date & Time(IST)
1 anon0262 106500.00 Regular 14-03-2024 07:03:53 PM IST
2 anon0102 96800.00 Regular 14-03-2024 07:03:29 PM IST
3 anon0262 96800.00 Regular 14-03-2024 07:03:29 PM IST
4 anon0102 88000.00 Regular 14-03-2024 04:03:01 PM IST
5 anon0102 88000.00 Regular 14-03-2024 04:03:10 PM IST
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