Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere
By: aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von Johann Matthäus Bechstein ; mit Kupfertafeln
Contributors: Bechstein, Johann Matthäus, 1757-1822, editor; Weise, Adam, 1776-1835, engraver; Nussbiegel, Johann, 1750-approximately 1829, engraver; Bock, Johann Carl, 1757-1843, engraver; Müller, G., fl. 1792, engraver; Horny, C. (Conrad), 1764-1807, engraver; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner; Industrie-Comptoir (Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)
Published: 1799
Language: ger
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Mammals; Early works to 1800; Classification; Pictorial works
Other titles: Allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere
Work titles: History of quadrupeds
Description: Thomas Pennant was a keen geologist, naturalist and antiquary. Linnaeus supported his election to the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in 1757, and in 1767 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. His History of Quadrupeds (1793), aimed to promote natural history among a wider readership, originated in an informal index to John Ray's Synopsis of 1693.
Notes: Engraved plates variously signed.

Errata: last leaf of each volume.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), vol. 4, p. 1543

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SCNHRB copy (39088000743922, 39088000743815) stamped on title pages: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [manuscript accession no.] 268671. Inscribed in ink on verso of title page: C.W. Richmond.

SCNHRB copy with plates to volume 2 not bound sequentially.

SCNHRB copy in old marbled paper boards, manuscript title on paper spine label; housed in archival boxes.