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Natural history, Pre-Linnean works, Pictorial works, Birds, Botany, Pre- Linnean worksPlaces
Bahamas, Southern States, South Carolina, Florida, North CarolinaShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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On spine: Catesby's American history.
"The figures were etched by himself from his own paintings, and the colored copies executed under his inspection." - Appleton's cyclopedia of American biog.
The Appendix was probably printed in 1748. Cf. Brit. Mus. cat.
Laid in are 2 leaves from the 3d ed. of 1771: A catalogue of the animals and plants represented in Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, with the Linnaean names.
The "Preface", "An account of Carolina and the Bahama Islands" (xliv p.) the map and the "Appendix" (20 p., 20 col. plates) bound in different order to that given by the Hunt botanical cat.
With a list of subscribers
Fisher copy: Bound in diced russia with gilt dentelle border. Armorial binding with the crest of Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton added later on black leather onlays at the base of the spines.
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