"Bat, Water Rat, Field Mice"
 Drawn by Paillou, engraved by Mazell . Thomas Pennant. From The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March, 1766. Large folio. Etchings. Original hand-colouring. Drawings by P. Paillou, G. Edwards, et. al. Etchings by P. Mazell. Full margins. A series of  animal and bird prints by one of England's leading 18th-century naturalists. Thomas Pennant was a fellow of the Royal Society and a friend and correspondent with such notables as Sir Joseph Banks and Carl Linnaeus. His British Zoology was an expensive and major undertaking. Where contemporaries like Catesby and Edwards were more interested in foreign species, Pennant takes the credit for publishing the first colour illustrations of birds in a book attempting to portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. £235 inc delivery x2 all whole page image shown

"The Weasel, The Stoat"

  Drawn by Paillou, engraved by Mazell . Thomas Pennant. From The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March, 1766. Large folio. Etchings. Original hand-colouring. Drawings by P. Paillou, G. Edwards, et. al. Etchings by P. Mazell. Full margins. A series of  animal and bird prints by one of England's leading 18th-century naturalists. Thomas Pennant was a fellow of the Royal Society and a friend and correspondent with such notables as Sir Joseph Banks and Carl Linnaeus. His British Zoology was an expensive and major undertaking. Where contemporaries like Catesby and Edwards were more interested in foreign species, Pennant takes the credit for publishing the first colour illustrations of birds in a book attempting to portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. £235 inc delivery x2 all whole page image shown

"The Polecat"

  Drawn by Paillou, engraved by Mazell . Thomas Pennant. From The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March, 1766. Large folio. Etchings. Original hand-colouring. Drawings by P. Paillou, G. Edwards, et. al. Etchings by P. Mazell. Full margins. A series of  animal and bird prints by one of England's leading 18th-century naturalists. Thomas Pennant was a fellow of the Royal Society and a friend and correspondent with such notables as Sir Joseph Banks and Carl Linnaeus. His British Zoology was an expensive and major undertaking. Where contemporaries like Catesby and Edwards were more interested in foreign species, Pennant takes the credit for publishing the first colour illustrations of birds in a book attempting to portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. £235 inc delivery x2 all whole page image shown

"Common Rat, Norway Rat, Shrew Mouse"

  Drawn by Paillou, engraved by Mazell . Thomas Pennant. From The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March, 1766. Large folio. Etchings. Original hand-colouring. Drawings by P. Paillou, G. Edwards, et. al. Etchings by P. Mazell. Full margins. A series of  animal and bird prints by one of England's leading 18th-century naturalists. Thomas Pennant was a fellow of the Royal Society and a friend and correspondent with such notables as Sir Joseph Banks and Carl Linnaeus. His British Zoology was an expensive and major undertaking. Where contemporaries like Catesby and Edwards were more interested in foreign species, Pennant takes the credit for publishing the first colour illustrations of birds in a book attempting to portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. £235 inc delivery x2 all whole page image shown

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"The Roebuck"
  Drawn by Paillou, engraved by Mazell . Thomas Pennant. From The British Zoology. London: J. and J. March, 1766. Large folio. Etchings. Original hand-colouring. Drawings by P. Paillou, G. Edwards, et. al. Etchings by P. Mazell. Full margins. A series of  animal and bird prints by one of England's leading 18th-century naturalists. Thomas Pennant was a fellow of the Royal Society and a friend and correspondent with such notables as Sir Joseph Banks and Carl Linnaeus. His British Zoology was an expensive and major undertaking. Where contemporaries like Catesby and Edwards were more interested in foreign species, Pennant takes the credit for publishing the first colour illustrations of birds in a book attempting to portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. £235 inc delivery  enquire due to size
 

Sciurus - fulvus.  Red Squirrel
Tab XLVI. Copper engraving handcoloured, 1796. Paper size 20 3/4 x 14". Good condition and colour.   from Cimelia Physica by John Frederick  MILLER, (active 1772-96) ' Circa 1776. Hand Coloured Lithograph 43.5x29cm He was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian Müller (1715 – c. 1790). Miller, along with his brother James,[1] produced paintings from the sketches made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage.[2] He accompanied Joseph Banks on his expedition to Iceland in 1772. Miller published Cimelia Physica. Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds, birds, &c. together with several of the most elegant plants (1796) with text by George Shaw. £285 inc delivery enquire due to size


Marco, a lion in the Tower of London, a present from the Moroccan Ambassador, 1749
A lion, standing in profile to right on a rock, with a lioness prowling towards him in the background; the beast was housed in the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. The menagerie moved to Regent's Park in 1834. Double page Gentlemans magazine showing the new present to the UK. .The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine published in London in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. The magazine began publication with the January 1731 issue. Over time the magazine had various subtitles, including "monthly intelligencer" and "historical review". It restarted its volume numbering in 1868. It ceased publication in 1907. £45 rather rare.. and grumpy looking x 2