Now rare or Obs. [f. Gr. ζῴον animal + -γραφία, -GRAPHY.]
1. Description of animals; descriptive zoology.
1593. R. Harvey, Philad., 97. When men play the parts of beasts, let them go among the numbers of cattel in Zoography.
1651. H. More, Second Lash, in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 194. We are now come to that rare piece of Zoography of thine, the world drawn out in the shape of an Animal.
1697. Swift, T. Tub, Ep. Ded. (1704), 8. I was grosly mistaken in the Zoography and Topography of them.
1807. W. Wood (title), Zoography; or the Beauties of Nature, displayed in Select Descriptions from the Animal and Vegetable … Kingdom.
1865. Nat. Hist. Rev., July, 352. With regard to species and groups of species, (a) their complete description or Zoography: (b) their systematic arrangement or Taxonomy.
2. The art of depicting animals; pictorial art in general. (Repr. Gr. ζῳγραφία: not an Eng. sense.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Zoography … the painting or picturing of beasts.
1814. W. Taylor [see ZOOGRAPHER 2].
