![MILLER, John Frederick (1715--1790) and George SHAW (1751-1813). Cimelia physica: Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds, birds, &c. Together with several of the most elegant plants, engraved and coloured from the subjects themselves by John Frederick Miller, with descriptions by George Shaw. London: by T. Bensley for Benjamin and John White and John Sewell, 1796 [but plates watermarked 1811-16].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06110_0065_000(114336).jpg?w=1)
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MILLER, John Frederick (1715--1790) and George SHAW (1751-1813). Cimelia physica: Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds, birds, &c. Together with several of the most elegant plants, engraved and coloured from the subjects themselves by John Frederick Miller, with descriptions by George Shaw. London: by T. Bensley for Benjamin and John White and John Sewell, 1796 [but plates watermarked 1811-16].
2 (524 x 360). 60 hand-coloured etched plates by and after Miller, including 41 plates of birds, printed in sepia. (Plate 47 with thin brown line at lower blank margin, final plate bound in upside down. Some offsetting to text, occasional thumb-soiling, light creasemark to D1. Without the plate list or table of Linnean classifications.) Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind (rebacked preserving gilt spine, covers scuffed, corners bumped), gilt edges.
A FINE COPY re-issue of the second edition of 1796. This series of plates by Miller first appeared between 1776-1792 under the title Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated birds, animals and many curious plants. The descriptions by George Shaw were added in the second edition. Some copies contain the 10-leaf Linnean table which formed the text to the first edition, although neither the table nor plate list are present in this copy. The illustration shows Psittacus Melanocephalus (said by Shaw 'to be of a peculiarly stubborn and obstinate nature; tamed with great difficulty and very quarrelsome'). The figures include two other parrots, four species of penguin, the Secretary Bird, 'the largest and most magnificent' of the doves Columba coronata, the yelloow-headed Cuckoo Cuculus chrysocephalus, Alcedo formosa a South American kingfisher 'never before described', the violet-black Hoopoe 'one of the rarest of its genus as well as one of the most beautiful', humming birds, exotic woodpeckers and an Indian toucan. BLNH III, p. 1313; Fine Bird Books (*) p. 94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p. 585.
2 (524 x 360). 60 hand-coloured etched plates by and after Miller, including 41 plates of birds, printed in sepia. (Plate 47 with thin brown line at lower blank margin, final plate bound in upside down. Some offsetting to text, occasional thumb-soiling, light creasemark to D1. Without the plate list or table of Linnean classifications.) Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind (rebacked preserving gilt spine, covers scuffed, corners bumped), gilt edges.
A FINE COPY re-issue of the second edition of 1796. This series of plates by Miller first appeared between 1776-1792 under the title Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated birds, animals and many curious plants. The descriptions by George Shaw were added in the second edition. Some copies contain the 10-leaf Linnean table which formed the text to the first edition, although neither the table nor plate list are present in this copy. The illustration shows Psittacus Melanocephalus (said by Shaw 'to be of a peculiarly stubborn and obstinate nature; tamed with great difficulty and very quarrelsome'). The figures include two other parrots, four species of penguin, the Secretary Bird, 'the largest and most magnificent' of the doves Columba coronata, the yelloow-headed Cuckoo Cuculus chrysocephalus, Alcedo formosa a South American kingfisher 'never before described', the violet-black Hoopoe 'one of the rarest of its genus as well as one of the most beautiful', humming birds, exotic woodpeckers and an Indian toucan. BLNH III, p. 1313; Fine Bird Books (*) p. 94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p. 585.