PENNANT, Thomas. Indian Zoology, London: Henry Hughes for Robert Faulder, 1790, 4°, second edition, hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by P. Mazell after Latham, Davies, Forster and others, mainly of native birds (some light offsetting to text), contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. [Nissen IVB 714; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p. 131; Woods 1790]

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PENNANT, Thomas. Indian Zoology, London: Henry Hughes for Robert Faulder, 1790, 4°, second edition, hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by P. Mazell after Latham, Davies, Forster and others, mainly of native birds (some light offsetting to text), contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. [Nissen IVB 714; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p. 131; Woods 1790]

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Woods: "A reprint of the author's very rare original Indian Zoology, with a translation of certain matters by Forster from his Latin-German edition of 1781; also a list of oriental and near-oriental animals in The Indian Faunula."

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