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George Shaw (1751-1813) and Frederick Polydor Nodder (fl.1773-c.1801)
Vivarium Naturae...The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature. London: Nodder & Co., [1789-] 1790-1813. 24 volumes (vol.XXIV including General Indexes), 8vo (235 x 142mm). Parallel English and Latin text and dedicatory title-pages. 1064 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Richard Nodder and others, 7 folding, uncoloured engraved additional title in vol.I, uncoloured engraved plate of Shaw's tomb by R.B.Peake after Richard Nodder. (Some occasional offsetting, spotting and browning.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt (neatly rebacked in red calf). Provenance: William Manning (armorial bookplate); Baron Templemore (bookplate).
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION of this 'remarkable serial' (Wood). The Naturalist's Miscellany is devoted to zoological subjects of which 282 are birds. The majority of the detailed and richly hand-coloured plates are by Frederick Nodder's son Richard. As detailed in the original Prospectus, "The Plates [are] printed on the best paper...executed with the most scrupulous Adherence to Nature, and...coloured with the utmost Precision and Exactness." Complete sets are rare as the work was published in monthly parts for just under 24 years: 287 parts were issued between August 1789 and June 1813, the year of Dr. Shaw's death. The first 488 plates were published by Frederick Nodder and plates 489-1064 by his wife Elizabeth. Numbers 1065-1068 were prepared but never published. After his father's death and the completion of the present work, Richard Nodder (in partnership with William Elford Leach) went on to publish The Zoological Miscellany: in effect a sequel to the present work. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.142; Lisney p.312; Nissen IVB 869; Nissen IVB 869 & cf. ZBI 3835 refers; Wood p.565. Sold, as a periodical, not subject to return. (24)
Vivarium Naturae...The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature. London: Nodder & Co., [1789-] 1790-1813. 24 volumes (vol.XXIV including General Indexes), 8vo (235 x 142mm). Parallel English and Latin text and dedicatory title-pages. 1064 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Richard Nodder and others, 7 folding, uncoloured engraved additional title in vol.I, uncoloured engraved plate of Shaw's tomb by R.B.Peake after Richard Nodder. (Some occasional offsetting, spotting and browning.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt (neatly rebacked in red calf). Provenance: William Manning (armorial bookplate); Baron Templemore (bookplate).
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION of this 'remarkable serial' (Wood). The Naturalist's Miscellany is devoted to zoological subjects of which 282 are birds. The majority of the detailed and richly hand-coloured plates are by Frederick Nodder's son Richard. As detailed in the original Prospectus, "The Plates [are] printed on the best paper...executed with the most scrupulous Adherence to Nature, and...coloured with the utmost Precision and Exactness." Complete sets are rare as the work was published in monthly parts for just under 24 years: 287 parts were issued between August 1789 and June 1813, the year of Dr. Shaw's death. The first 488 plates were published by Frederick Nodder and plates 489-1064 by his wife Elizabeth. Numbers 1065-1068 were prepared but never published. After his father's death and the completion of the present work, Richard Nodder (in partnership with William Elford Leach) went on to publish The Zoological Miscellany: in effect a sequel to the present work. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.142; Lisney p.312; Nissen IVB 869; Nissen IVB 869 & cf. ZBI 3835 refers; Wood p.565. Sold, as a periodical, not subject to return. (24)