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<dl><dd>statement of responsibility: drawn and described immediately from nature</dd>
<dd>Added t.p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae, sive Rerum naturalium, variae et vividae icones, ad ipsam naturam. Depictae et descriptae</dd>
<dd>Special added engraved t.p. in v. 1: Vivarium naturae or The Naturalists' miscellany. vol. I. ... By G. Shaw ... the figures by F.P. Nodder ... London, printed for Nodder &amp; Co., 1790</dd>
<dd>The t.p. appears in v. 1, only, but the title and volume number are embodied in the dedication in each of the remaining volumes</dd>
<dd>Vol. 1-12, by G. Shaw and F.P. Nodder; v. 13-24, by G. Shaw and E. and R.P. Nodder</dd>
<dd>Issued in 267 numbers between Aug. 1789 and June 1813. For the dates of publication of the various parts, see note by C.D. Sherborn in Ann. &amp; mag. nat. hist., ser. 6, v. 15 (1895), p. 375-376; also Osgood in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. v. 27 (1914), p. 3</dd>
<dd>Continued by W.E. Leach and R.P. Nodder, as the Zoological miscellany, 1814-1817</dd>
<dd>With some errors in plate numbering</dd>
<dd>Bound at end of v. 24: General indexes, in Latin and English, of the subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of The naturalist's miscellany, by the late George Shaw and Rich. P. Nodder. London : Printed for and published by Elizabeth Nodder &amp; Son ... by B. McMillan ..., 1813. 26 p., [1] leaf of plates</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 869</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Anker, J. Bird books, 467</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology, p. 565-566</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references and indexes</dd>
<dd>Text in Latin and English</dd>
<dd>Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher</dd>
<dd>Anker, J. Bird books</dd>
<dd>Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology</dd>
<dd>CHMRB copy is imperfect; the following plates are wanting: 187, 208, 384, 387, and 440</dd>
<dd>CHMRB copy has several plates bound slightly out of numerical order</dd>
<dd>CHMRB copy has bookplates: 1. Ex libris The Cooper Union Museum Library, the gift of Robert W. Chanler; 2. (for boxed volumes) Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee. Accession nos. 8131-8154</dd>
<dd>CHMRB copy has modern gilt-tooled brown buckram binding, with the exception of v. 4-6, 10, 14, and 16, which have old gilt-tooled full leather bindings, re-backed, housed in archival paperboard boxes for preservation</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Pictorial works; Animals</div>
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<dl><dd>Shaw, George, 1751-1813</dd>
<dd>Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836. Zoological miscellany</dd>
<dd>Nodder, Frederick Polydore, ill</dd>
<dd>Nodder, R. P. (Richard P.), fl. 1790-1820, ill</dd>
<dd>Nodder, Elizabeth, publisher</dd>
<dd>McMillan, Buchanan, fl. 1801-1834, printer</dd>
<dd>Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 1872-1930, donor. DSI</dd>
<dd>Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Library, former owner. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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