Darvill's Rare Prints, fine antique prints and rare maps since 1918! Darvill's Rare Prints, fine antique prints and rare maps since 1918!
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Phalaena Vinula

Plate 1
Phalaena Vinula


Fulgora Lanternaria

Plate 116
Fulgora Lanternaria
$20


Sphinx Moth

Plate 119
Sphinx Moth
$25


Ephemera insect

Plate 121
Ephemera
Swammerdamiana
larvae, etc.
$15


The Bird-Catching Spider

Plate 123
Aranea
Aranea avicularia
(The Bird-Catching Spider)
$30


Great Nereis

Plate 126
Great Nereis
$15


Chiton Squamosus

Plate 148
Chiton Squamosus
$15
We have many more of Shaw's copperplate engravings
(this is all of Shaw's insects that we have, however)
...please see the Natural History page for Shaw's fish, reptiles, mammals, etc.
See also the Shaw/Nodder insects .

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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.