A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, also known by its standard abbreviation Spec.

It consists of 16 colour plates of paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, and around 40 pages of accompanying text.

[2] The work began as a collaboration between Smith and George Shaw.

Together they produced a two-part work entitled Zoology and Botany of New Holland, with each part containing two zoology plates and two botany plates, along with accompanying text.

The collaboration then ended, and Shaw went on to independently produce his Zoology of New Holland.