The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands : containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants : particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors : together with their descriptions in English and French, to which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters, with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. : to the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of

Title Variants

Alternative: Natural history of Carolina
Translated: Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les isles Bahama

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: Account of Carolina and the Bahama Islands
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies

By

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770
Innys, William, 1756
Royal Society (Great Britain)

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed at the expence of the author, and sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St. Paul's, by Mr. Hauksbee, at the Royal Society House, and by the author, at Mr. Bacon's in Hoxton, MDCCXXXI-MDCCXXXXIII [1731-43]

Notes

Catesby broke new ground; He portrayed his birds more naturally than before, with foliage backgrounds, and to adopt the folio format. He depicted the natural history of one area in its entirety, and often drew from living models.

Text in English and French in parallel columns.

Vol. 1: [4], xii, 100, [6] p., [102] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 100, xliv, 20, [8] p., [120] leaves of plates.

Title pages printed in red and black.

Vol. 2: first 20 text page numbers altered to 1-20 from 121-140.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² a-c² A-2B²; v. 2: pi1 2B-3C² A-L² *² 2*²(12*2) ²A-²E².

The illustrations were etched by the author from his own drawings and hand colored under his direction. Cf. Preface, v. 1, -. xi-xii.

Title pages printed in red and black; list of subscribers, v. 1, p. [3-4].

Vol. 2: plates 61 (Magnolia, the laurel tree of Carolina; full page) and 96 (Mangrove grape tree) by G.D. Ehret.

Vol. 2: plate 61 unnumbered; plate 80 numbered 62.

Vol. 2, p. 59 numbered 56.

Vol. 2: p. 80 incorrectly numbered 62; p. 62 incorrectly numbered 80.

Appendix: plates 3, 7, 9 unnumbered.

Work originally issued in 11 parts, each including 20 plates (v. 1 issued in parts 1-5, between 1729-1732; v. 2 issued in parts 6-10, between 1734-1743; and the Appendix, issued in 1747). The t.p. for v. 1 is dated 1731, and the t.p. for v. 2 is dated 1743. Catesby is on record as having presented the completed Appendix to the Royal Society on 2 July 1747 (Royal Society journal book, v. 20, p. 307).

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), | 336

The word "prefixed" in the subtitle of v. 1 printed as "perfixed."

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, | 177

Includes indexes.

The illustrations were etched by the author from his own drawings and hand colored under his direction. Cf. Preface, v. 1, p. xi-xii.

Contains supplement: An account of Carolina and the Bahama Islands = Relation de la Caroline, et des Isles de Bahama (xliv p.). Also: Appendix. 1748? (bound at end of v. 2): 20 p., 20 plates.

Volume 1 is dedicated to Queen Caroline; v. 2 is dedicated to the Princess of Wales, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | Bd. 1, no. 842

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, | 177

ESTC (online) | T147031

Text in English and French in parallel columns pages.

Subjects

Bahamas , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Florida , Illustrated works , Natural history , Natural history illustration , North Carolina , Pictorial works , Pre-Linnean works , South Carolina , Southern States

Call Number

QH41 .C26

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/agr02000176
NAL: QH41 .C37 1731
OCLC: 65978991