Introduction To the Arctic Zoology with additional illustrations

A printed version of Pennant's 'Introduction to the Arctic Zoology', from the second edition of 1792, with lavish marginal illustrations likely by Moses Griffith. Some views (e.g. those of Dover on pp. 2–3) match illustrations in other volumes in the 'Outlines' collection (e.g. P/16/20, pp. 220–221).

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ID:	P/16/24
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Pennant, Thomas; Griffith, Moses
Date made:	1773; 1773-1792 1787 1787-01-01 - 1792-12-31 1787-1792 1790 1791 1792-10-27 1792
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 volume
Parts:	'Outlines of the Globe' or 'Imaginary World Tour' and related items - manuscript tours, natural history, and illustrations authored and compiled by Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer (Manuscript) Northern Regions. Including England: Scotland: Iceland: Holland: Denmark. (Manuscript) (P/16/1) Northern Regions, Vol II: Comprising of Norway: Sweden: Spitsbergen: Russia. (Manuscript) (P/16/2) Northern Regions, Vol. III: Asiatic Russia (Manuscript) (P/16/3) 'Northern Regions, Vol. IIII: Nova Zemjla, Siberia, Kamtschatka. (Manuscript) (P/16/4) France. 'From Calais to...Bretagne' [Normandy and Brittany] (Manuscript) (P/16/6) France. 'From Le Pais D'Aunis…to the borders of Spain' (Manuscript) (P/16/7) Spain and Portugal. (Manuscript) (P/16/8) Coasts of Southern Spain and Southern France (Manuscript) (P/16/9) Northern Africa (Manuscript) (P/16/10) West Africa ['Nigritian Africa']. (Manuscript) (P/16/11) Southern and Eastern Africa ['Æthiopian Africa'] (Manuscript) (P/16/12) Arabia and Persia (Manuscript) (P/16/13) Western Hindostan. (Manuscript) (P/16/14) Eastern Hindostan. (Manuscript) (P/16/15) India Extra Gangem ['India beyond the Ganges'] (Manuscript) (P/16/16) The Empires of China and Japan (Manuscript) (P/16/17) Malayan Islands and New Holland. (Manuscript) (P/16/18) Spicy Islands (Manuscript) (P/16/19) London to Dover (Manuscript) (P/16/20) Tour in Part of the Mercian and Northumbrian Kingdoms; from Downing to Alston Moor (Manuscript) (P/16/22) Dover to the Isle of Wight. (Manuscript) (P/16/23) Introduction To the Arctic Zoology with additional illustrations (Manuscript) (P/16/24) Papers extracted from the 'Outlines of the Globe' volumes. (Manuscript) (P/16/25)

Introduction To the Arctic Zoology with additional illustrations

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