PBA Galleries

2 volumes. [10], cc, (6), 185, [1 blank]; [2], (187)-586, [12], 1 errata pp. 24 engraved plates (one folding) including frontispiece. (4to) 23.8x19 cm. (9½x7½"), period full calf. First Edition.

A supplement, not present here, was issued in 1787. "This famous treatise... was at first intended to bear a title indicating a study of the fauna of King George's dominions in North America. However, about this time the American colonies separated from the mother country, and the author adopted the above rather misleading caption." -- Wood. "Pennant also had a talent for observation and organization. He was able to combine his own observations with information from Thomas Hutchins, Ashton Blackburn, Alexander Garden, Benjamin Smith Barton, and Peter Simon Pallas, and thus to produce his classic work, 'Arctic Zoology.'" DSB X, page 509.