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TITLE: Outlines of The Globe
SUB TITLE: The View of Hindoostan - Western Hindoostan
AUTHOR: Thomas Pennant
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: 1st
PUBLISHER: Henry Hughs
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1798
BINDING: Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover binding, title in gilt on spine
NO.OF PAGES: [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, total9 plates.
SIZE:
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
b)
TITLE: Outlines of The Globe
SUB TITLE: The View of Hindoostan - Eastern Hindoostan
AUTHOR: Thomas Pennant
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: 2nd
PUBLISHER: Henry Hughs
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1798
BINDING: Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover binding, title in gilt on spine
NO.OF PAGES: [12], 374, [13] pp. With 13 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece (1 hand-colored); engravedheadpiece, total 14 plates.
SIZE:
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 3.3 cm
c)
TITLE: Outlines of The Globe
SUB TITLE: The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan
AUTHOR: Thomas Pennant
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: 3rd
PUBLISHER: Henry Hughs
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1800
BINDING: Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover binding, title in gilt on spine
NO.OF PAGES: xi, [5], 284
SIZE:
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
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d)
TITLE: Outlines of The Globe
SUB TITLE: The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the spicy Islands
AUTHOR: Thomas Pennant
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: 4th
PUBLISHER: Henry Hughs
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1800
BINDING: Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover binding, title in gilt on spine
NO.OF PAGES: xi, [5], 284
SIZE:
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 2.8 cm
The author intended to publish Outlines of the Globe as a fourteen volumeset, 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 ofNew 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.
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