Lot No. 12: PENNANT, THOMAS

OUTLINES OF THE GLOBE

Medium: Printed Books
Year: 1798
Size: 11.5 x 9 inches
Place: London

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PENNANT, THOMAS

OUTLINES OF THE GLOBE

Vol. I. The View of Hindoostan - Western Hindoostan,
Vol. II The View of Hindoostan - Eastern Hindoostan
Vol. III The View of India Extra Gangem, China and Japan.

First edition

Year: 1798

Size: 29 x 23 cm (11.5 x 9 inches)

Printed by Henry Hughs. 1798. First edition, Large 4to. 3 Volumes Set, 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, total 9 plates.

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, total 14 plates.

Vol. 3 - The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan. xi, [5], 284, [13] pp.

Together, 3 volumes. Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover Binding, title in gilt on spine.

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.

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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	Nickname	Amount(Rs)	Type	Date & Time(IST)
1	anon0290	217800.00	Regular	17-10-2024 07:10:51 PM IST
2	anon0142	198000.00	Regular	17-10-2024 04:10:55 PM IST

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OUTLINES OF THE GLOBE

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