- Bib ID:
- 488821
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shaw, George, 1751-1813
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. GMMq 590.74 SHA copy
- Description:
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- [London] : impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792-1796
- 6 pts. in 2 volumes (248 pages, [60] leaves of plates ; 48 pages, [12] leaves of plates) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK780
- Notes:
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- Parts presented to the Royal Society: 1, on January 12, 1792; 2 on May 3, 1792; 4 & 4 on November 22, 1792; 5 on February 14, 1793; 6 in 1796.
- Volume 1 dedicated to Their Majesties the King and Queen of Great Britain &c. &c. &c. as first patrons of the arts and sciences by James Parkinson, proprietor of the Museum Leverianum; Volume 2 dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks.
- Volume 1 includes plates of two Australian birds: 7, Psittacus splendidus = Splendid parrot; 36, Pinguinaria patachonica = Penguin.
- Volume 2 includes Psittavus terrestris = Ground parrot; Psittacus magnifius = Magnificent cockatoo; Lozia guttata = Spotted-sided grossbeak; and Macropus giganteus = Kanguroo.
- National Library of Australia's NK780 copy lacks volume 2; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1792/5); also the armorial bookplate of William Baker.
- National Library of Australia's FRM F144a copy lacks volume 1.
- National Library of Australia's GMM copy complete; signed, embossed and bearing the bookplate of Gregory M. Mathews; volume 1 inscribed in ink, Robert & Lizzy Dennis, Paignton July 1st, 1890.
- GMMq 590.74 SHA copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-528439225
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK780.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 144a
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1813
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1796
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