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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Narwhal

Plate 49
Narwhal
$30


Common Eel, Conger Eel

Plate 100
Common Eel
Conger Eel
$20


Muraena

Plate 101
Muraena
$20


Electric Eel

Plate 102
Electric Gymnotus
(Electric Eel)
$20


Remoras

Plate 103
Mediterranean Remora
Indian Remora
$25


Turbot and Flounder

Plate 104
Turbot
Flounder
$25


Piper fish

Plate 108
Piper
$25


Pike fish

Plate 109
Cepedian Pike
Common Pike
$25


Ribbed Silurus

Plate 110
Ribbed Silurus
(Catfish)
$25
We have many more of Shaw's copperplate engravings
(this is all of Shaw's fish that we have, however)
...please see the Natural History page for Shaw's sealife, insects, reptiles, mammals, etc.
See also the Shaw/Nodder fish.

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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 a 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.