1792 SHAW NODDER BIRD COMMON BLACK CURASSOW #117

1792 SHAW NODDER BIRD COMMON BLACK CURASSOW #117 (image 1/1)
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Shaw and Nodder - Shaw and Nodder, The NaturalistsMiscellany, fine hand coloredcopperplate engravings c. 1789-1813 NOTE: WE HAVE RECENTLY ACQUIQRED SEVERAL MORE VOLUMES OF SHAW & NODDER, c. 1790 - 1795, which in addition to American and European subjects, contain a number of excellent plates of birds, fish, etc. native to Australia. We will be offering these on eBay over the next several weeks, along with the "remains" of Vols. 1 thru 8 previously acquired TITLE: THE COMMON BLACK CURASSOW OR LE HOCCO DE LA GUIANE, OR CRAX ALECTOR PLATE NO. 117 OF 1792 , a gallinaceous bird, common in South America. with original English and Latin text and photocopy of the title page CONDITION: EXCELLENT, EXCEPT: light age toning at the margins only, well outside the plate marks, and which can easily be matted out. More popularly known as "Shaw-Nodder" or on eBay as just "Nodder," this is an original hand colored copperplate engraving on Whatman paper from "The Naturalists Miscellany" by George Shaw, published by Frederick P. Nodder, Brewer Street, London. The work, published in 24 volumes between 1789 and 1813, consists of over 1,000 appealing, whimsical figures of some 284 birds, together with fish, shells, exotic marine life, butterflies, insects, quadrupeds reptiles, and a very few botanicals. A further work, The Zoological Miscellany" read more
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