General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Commenced by the late George Shaw, With Plates from the first Authorities and m

Pp. [4], 290 + Title vignette + 33 Full page copper engraved plates of birds, (as listed), 2 plates with printer's offsetting, others plates very good. Including 7 hawks/falcons & 2 owls. Lacks lower cover. George Kearsley Shaw, published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his -Zoology of New Holland- (1794). He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799. Sold as a collection of plates.