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George Shaw and Frederick P. Nodder
The Naturalist's Miscellany 1789-1813, London

Original 200-year-old copperplate engravings with hand-colouring
Sheet size: varies according to trimming, but approx. 5.75 x 9.75 inches.
The paper varies from softly aged to quite white, with little or no foxing and excellent overall condition. 

Dedicated to the Most Illustrious Princess, Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, The Naturalist's Miscellany contains works of such beauty and originality that it is beloved by all who see it. The prints are hand-coloured engravings on strong Whatman paper, with the occasional Whatman watermark or date. The prints are in remarkable condition for a work that is 200 years old, with the colours of a beauty and vividness unsurpassed to this day in the world of hand-coloured prints. Darvill's Rare Prints is pleased to offer a selection of prints from this most curiously whimsical and humorous collection of prints.

Plate 9
Centipede
SOLD

Plate 12
Bird-Catching Spider
SOLD

Plate 34
Hercules Beetle
(only partial text available)
SOLD

Plate 37
Fire-fly, or Lantern Fly
(partial descriptive text avail.)
SOLD

Plate 42
Autumnal Acarus, or
Harvest Bug
SOLD

Plate 43
Great Mantis
(7 x 9¾" fold-out)
SOLD

Plate 46
Great Julus
SOLD

Plate 64
Vegetating Mite
SOLD

Plate 68
Achilles, or the
Great Blue-Banded Butterfly
(light text offsetting on print)

Plate 80
Fork-headed Beetle
SOLD

Plate 85
Cancroid Phalangium
SOLD

Plate 86
Rose-coloured Amphisbaena
SOLD

Plate 95
Broad-Breasted Mantis
SOLD

Plate 100
African Scorpion
SOLD

Plate 104
Beating Ptinus, or
Death Watch Beetle
SOLD

Plate 119
Dry Leaf Mantis
SOLD

Plate 121
Hair-Worm
SOLD

Plate 128
Gold-Spotted Acarus
SOLD

Plate 131
The Midas Beetle
SOLD

Plate 137
Snail
SOLD

Plate 182
Mailed Coccus
SOLD

Plate 187
Lepidopterine Mite
SOLD

Plate 208
The Louse
SOLD

Plate 217
The Medicinal Leech
(No text is available)
SOLD

Plate 233
Long-Breasted Mantis
SOLD

Plate 241
Broad-Jointed Tapeworm
SOLD

Plate 256
The Great Buprestis
SOLD

Plate 271
Hector, or the Crimson-Spotted
Indian Butterfly
SOLD

Plate 280
The Great Cerambryx
(corner damage upper right, well outside plate mark)
SOLD

Plate 284
The Stag-horned Cerambryx
SOLD

Plate 292
Great Dytiscus
(Black Water-Beetle)
SOLD

Plate 295
Lernaeae
(no text available)
SOLD

Plate 300
Augusta
(soft horizontal creases)

Plate 308
Diadem Spider
SOLD

Plate 316
The Unicorn Beetle
SOLD

Plate 335
Lozenge Acarus
SOLD

Plate 336
Golden Spider

Plate 339
The Great Nereis
(no text available)
SOLD

Plate 364
Flea Monoculus
SOLD

Plate 384
The Kanguroo Beetle
SOLD

Plate 387
Swallow Hipposbosca
SOLD

Plate 394
The Reniform Phalangium
SOLD

Plate 400
The Scarlet Hydrachna
SOLD

Plate 404
Paris
(uneven trim, marginal light brown marks)
SOLD

Plate 435
Patroclus
SOLD

Plate 440
Wandering Mite
SOLD

Plate 443
Privet Sphinx
SOLD

Plate 444
Demoleus & Nireus

Plate 516
Panthous
(trimmed close on right)
SOLD

Plate 530
Phalaena Agrippina
SOLD

Plate 543
The Linear Nepa
SOLD

Plate 560
The Fork-horned Beetle
SOLD

Plate 566
Sphinx Annonae
(no text avail.)
SOLD

Plate 567
Sphinx Annonae
(no text avail.)
SOLD

Plate 578
Australasian Caterpillar
SOLD

Plate 582
Boreas
SOLD

Plate 590
Protenor
SOLD

Plate 595
Sphynx Cluentius
(note ink mark upper right margin)

Plate 608
Doubtful Phalangium
SOLD

Plate 611
Persimmon Moth
(light text offsetting, no text avail.)
SOLD

Plate 614
American Tarantula
SOLD

Plate 618
Phalaena Strix
(Owl Moth)
SOLD

Plate 622
Poisonous Solpuga
SOLD

Plate 644
Fabia
(text offsetting)
SOLD

Plate 667
Sphinx Labruscae
SOLD

Plate 679
Sphinx Jatrophae
SOLD

Plate 712
Cuticular Mite
SOLD

Plate 758
The Golden Beetle
SOLD

Plate 764
Pectinated Mite
SOLD

Plate 803
Poplar Sphinx
SOLD

Plate 808
Typhon
SOLD

Plate 816
Goat Moth
SOLD

Plate 824
Buckthorn Butterfly
SOLD

Plate 828
Empedocles
(no text available)

Plate 840
The Pupal Locust
SOLD

Plate 852
Cramerian Butterfly
(no text avail.)

Plate 872
Hummingbird Sphinx
SOLD

Plate 883
? Sphinx
(no text available)
SOLD

Plate 886
Great Egger Moth
SOLD

Plate 928
Venus (moth)
SOLD

Plate 931
The Chinese Lantern-fly
SOLD

Plate 932
Matronula
SOLD

Plate 934
The Cape Moth
SOLD

Plate 938
Agarista
SOLD

Plate 939
The Scarlet Tiger Moth
SOLD

Plate 948
Erminia
SOLD

some foxing

Plate 951
Atys
SOLD

Plate 955
Bolina
SOLD

soft crease lower right, light foxing

Plate 960
Hyphinoe
SOLD

Plate 967
The Puss Moth
SOLD

Plate 972
The Cream-spotted Tiger Moth
SOLD

Plate 974
The Shining Beetle
SOLD

Plate 980
Crantor
SOLD

Plate 983
Western Spider
SOLD

Plate 988
Elpenor [Greater Elephant Hawk-Moth]
SOLD

Plate 991
Pyretus
SOLD

Plate 996
The Great Leopard Ermine Moth
SOLD

Plate 998
Proserpina
SOLD

Plate 1003
Troilus
SOLD

Plate 1006
Archippus

Plate 1010
Philenor
SOLD

Plate 1014
The Large Emerald Moth
SOLD

Plate 1018
Eubule
SOLD

We have many more Shaw and Nodder engravings...please check out the other categories at the top of this page.
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