The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants... Revis'd

by Mr. Edwards by Mark Catesby

$285,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books · No longer available

London: Printed for C. Marsh, T. Wilcox, & B. Stichall, 1754. / Second edition, revised by George Edwards, of the foundational colour-plate record of colonial American wildlife, and the most important ornithological work published before Audubon. Catesby's 220 hand-coloured etched plates, executed by the author himself after his 1722–1726 expedition, were the first European attempt to depict American birds in ecological context — the template

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