Oenanthe Americana & Solanum purpureo Yellow Breasted Chat with Spotted Wakerobin

by Mark Catesby

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine plate of the Yellow-Breasted Chat and Spotted Wakerobin from the second edition of the most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life ... a fundamental and original work for the study of American species Hunt . Trained as a botanist, Catesby travelled to Virginia in 1712 and remained there for seven years, sending back to England collections of plants and seeds. With the encouragement of Sir Hans Sloane and others, Catesby returned to America in 1722

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