Darvill's Rare Prints, fine antique prints and rare maps since 1918! Darvill's Rare Prints, fine antique prints and rare maps since 1918!
Antique prints from Darvill's since 1918 Rare Maps and Charts Limited edition prints from Alaska's most famous artist Rie Munoz Darvill's Rare Prints homepage About Darvill's Rare Prints
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Great Scarlet Maccaw

Plate 55
Great Scarlet Maccaw
$30


Psittacus Augustus

Plate 56
Psittacus Augustus
$25


Great or Common Bird of Paradise

Plate 58
Great or Common Bird of Paradise
$20


Common Cuckow (Cuckoo)

Plate 60
Common Cuckow (Cuckoo)
$20


Red-throated Hummingbird

Plate 61
Red-throated Hummingbird
$25


Great Crowned Pigeon

Plate 63
Great Crowned Pigeon
$25


Mocking Thrush

Plate 64
Mocking Thrush
$20


Ultramarine Ampelis

Plate 65
Ultramarine Ampelis
$20


Crossbill

Plate 66
Coccothraustes or
Crossbill
$20


Argus Pheasant

Plate 68
Argus Pheasant
$20


Ostrich

Plate 70
Ostrich
$30
(see enlargement for condition)


Cassowary

Plate 71
Casuarius Australis
Casuarius Galeatus
(Cassowary)
$20


Bustard

Plate 72
Bustard
$20


Jabirus

Plate 73
New Holland Jabiru
Common Jabiru
$20


Bittern and Stork

Plate 74
Bittern
Stork
$20


Egyptian Ibis

Plate 76
Outline of an Ibis
from an Egyptian Obelisk
Egyptian Ibis
$25


Curlew, Guarauna

Plate 77
Curlew
Guarauna
$20


Variable Jacana, Trumpeter

Plate 78
Variable Jacana
Trumpeter
$20


Turnstone, Plover

Plate 80
Turnstone
Long-legged Plover
$20


Great Awk, Patagonian Penguin

Plate 84
Great Awk, Patagonian Penguin
$25


Phaeton Aethereus

Plate 86
Phaeton Aethereus
$15
 


Skeleton of Turkey

Plate 50
Skeleton of Turkey
$20

  
We have many more of Shaw's copperplate engravings (this is all of Shaw's birds we have)
...please see the Natural History page for Shaw's mammals, reptiles, etc.
See also the Shaw/Nodder birds.

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"Zoological Lectures, delivered to the Royal Institution"
by George Shaw (1800-1819)
Mrs. Griffith, principal engraver

copperplate engravings • titles mainly English, some Latin
Sheet size: approx. 5½ x 9¼ inches (see enlargements for any flaws)

George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was initially a medical practitioner. He became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University and keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum. He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society was a fellow of the Royal Society. He is also well known these days for the colored prints of animals he published in The Naturalist's Miscellany with Mr. Nodder.