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1718. LAWSON, J. The | History | of | Carolina ; | containing the | Exact 

 Description and Natural History of that Country; | Together with 

 the Present State thereof. | And A Journal | Of a Thousand Miles, 

 Traveled thro' several | Nations of Indians. | Giving a particular Ac- 

 count of their Customs, Manners, &c. | By John Lawson, Gent. Sur- 

 veyor-General | of North-Carolina. | London, | printed for T. Warner, 

 at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster | Row, 1718. Price Bound Five 

 Shillings. 



Not seen title from Field, who states that the collation ia the same as that of 

 the ed. of 1714 or 1709. Is it anything more than other copies ? 



1730. MORTIMER, [C.] An Account of Mr. Mark Catesby's Essay towards 



the Natural His'ory of Carolina and the Bahama Islands, with 

 some Extracts out of the first three Sets. < Philos. Trans., xxxvi, 



1730, pp. 425-434. 



The commentary includes Catesby's birds, Nos. 1-60. 



1731. MORTIMER, [C.] A Continuation of an Account of Mr. Mark Catesby's 



Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama 

 Islands, with some Extracts out of the fourth Set. < Philos. Trans., 

 xxxvii, 1731, pp. 174-178. 



The commentary proceeds with Nos. 61-80. 



1731-48. CATESBY, M. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the 

 Bahama Islands : containing .... 2 vols. folio. London. Vol. I, 



1731. Vol.11, 1743. 200 plates, and map. Appendix, 1748. 



This is the ed/itio princeps, which I have not seen. There is a 2d ed. by G. 

 Edwards, 1754 ; a 3d ed. by the same, folio, 2 vols., London, 1771, with the appendix 

 and I/.nEaean index, which see, infra. See, also, Philos. Trans., xxxvi, 1730, pp. 425- 

 434; xxxvii, 1731, pp. 174-178; xxxvii, 1732, pp. 447-450 ; xxxviii, 1734, pp. 315-318; 

 xxxix, 1735, pp. 11-2-117; xxxix, 1736, pp. 251-258; xl, 1738, pp. 343-350; xlv, 

 1748, pp. 157-173. Seligmanris Sammlung, 9 vols. 4to, Niirnberg, 1749-1776, re- 

 produces Catesby, together with Edwards. 



1732. MORTIMER, C. A Continuation of an Account of an Essay towards a 



Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands, by Mark 

 Catesby, F. R. S. with some Extracts oat of tne fifth Set. < Philos. 

 Trans., xxxvii, 1732, pp. 447-450. 



Commentary continues with Nos. 81-100, concluding the birds of vol. I, the 

 five next papars relating to vol. II, which has birds only in the Appendix. 



1737. BRICKELL, J. The Natural | History | of | North Carolina. | With 

 an | Account | of the | Trade, Manners, and Customs of the | Chris- 

 tian and Indian Inhabitants. II- | lustrated with Copper-Plates, 

 whereon are | curiously Engraved the Map of the Country, | several 

 strange Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Snakes, | Insects, Trees, and Plants, 

 &c. | | By John Brickell, M. D. | | Nostra nos in urbe pere- 

 grinamur. Cic. | Dublin. | Printed by James Carson, in CoghilPs- 

 Court, Dame- | street, opposite to the Castle-Market. For the Au- 

 thor, | 1737. 1 vol. 8vo. Title, reverse blank, pp. i-vii, 1-408, wood- 

 cuts, folding map, and 2 folding plates of animals. 



" Of the Birds", pp. 171-213. A cursory but detailed account, descriptive and 

 general, of the species known to Lawson. several of which are figured on the plates 

 above cited. This was at the time, as the alleged author claimed, "the most exact 

 Account that is [was] yet known of the Birds that are [were] to be met with in 

 North Carolina"; and it constitutes one of the most notable faunal lists of Ameri- 

 can birds of the last century, comparable to Bartram's on Florida Birds, Belknap' 



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