File NLW MS 22195C. - Gronovius: Letters to Thomas Pennant

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NLW MS 22195C.

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Gronovius: Letters to Thomas Pennant

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  • 1762-1764 (Creation)

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20 ff. ; 235 x 190 mm.

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Biographical history

Thomas Pennant, naturalist, antiquary and traveller, was born on the Downing estate in Flintshire. He was educated at Wrexham and London before entering Queen's College, Oxford aged eighteen. Thomas developed a love of the natural world at school and began travelling whilst at Oxford; in the following years he travelled widely throughout Britain and Europe. The Outlines of the Globe was Thomas's most ambitious literary project. The work originally took up twenty-two volumes but only four of these were published - two by Pennant himself and two by his son, David.

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Phillips; Purchased at auction (for NLW), lot 87; 17 April 1986.

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Ten letters in Latin, 1762-1764, from Laurent Theodor Gronovius, Dutch naturalist, to Thomas Pennant, traveller and naturalist, mainly relating to their natural history studies and exchanges of books and specimens.

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  • Latin

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Latin.

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For copies of other Gronovius letters in the same series in BL Add. MS 52274, see NLW Facs. 618.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22195C

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vtls004271456

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(WlAbNL)0000271456

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  • Text: NLW MS 22195C.