The Naturalist's Miscellany

Title Variants

Alternative: Coloured figures of natural objects

Alternative: Vivarium naturae or The naturalist's miscellany

By

Shaw, George 1751-1813

Nodder, Frederick Polydore fl 1767-1800 , illustrator
Nodder, Elizabeth R. , publisher
Nodder, Richard Polydore fl 1790-1820 , illustrator
McMillan, Buchanan, fl 1801-1834 , printer
Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836 , Zoological miscellany.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for Nodder & Co, 1789-1813

Notes

Added t.p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae, sive Rerum naturalium, variae et vividae icones, ad ipsam naturam. Depictae et descriptae.

Continued by W. E. Leach and R. P. Nodder, as the Zoological miscellany, 1814-17.

Issued in 267 numbers.

Special added engraved t.p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae or The Naturalists' miscellany. vol. I. ... By G. Shaw ... the figures by F.P. Nodder ... London, printed for Nodder & Co., 1790.

The t.p. appears in v. 1, only, but the title and volume number are embodied in the dedication in each of the remaining volumes.

Text in Latin and English.

Vol. 1-12, by G. Shaw and F. P. Nodder; v. 13-24, by G. Shaw and E. and R. P. Nodder.

Vol. 1-12, by G. Shaw and F.P. Nodder; v. 13-24, by G. Shaw and E. and R.P. Nodder.

Issued in 267 numbers between Aug. 1789 and June 1813. For the dates of publication of the various parts, see note by C.D. Sherborn in Ann. & mag. nat. hist., ser. 6, v. 15 (1895), p. 375-376; also Osgood in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. v. 27 (1914), p. 3.

Only v. 1 has t.-p., but title and volume number are embodied in the dedication of each volume.

Special engr. t.-p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae or The Naturalists' miscellany. vol. I. ... By G. Shaw ... the figures by F. P. Nodder ... London, Nodder & co., 1790.

Continued by W.E. Leach and R.P. Nodder, as the Zoological miscellany, 1814-1817.

With some errors in plate numbering.

Added t.-p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae, sive Rerum naturalium, variae et vividae icones, ad ipsam naturam. Depictae et descriptae.

Bound at end of v. 24: General indexes, in Latin and English, of the subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of The naturalist's miscellany, by the late George Shaw and Rich. P. Nodder. London : Printed for and published by Elizabeth Nodder & Son ... by B. McMillan ..., 1813. 26 p., [1] leaf of plates.

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, | 869

Anker, J. Bird books, | 467

Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology, | p. 565-566

Text in Latin and English.

Subjects

Animals , Pictorial works , Zoology

BHL Collections

BHL Australia

Carnivorous Plants

Color Our Collections

Museums Victoria

Call Number

QL46 .S53

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.79941
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06015666
OCLC: 1916531
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51508688