Bahama Finch

by Mark Catesby

$650 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image from Catesby's 'The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands', the most famous colour-plate book of American plant and animal life...a fundamental and original work for the study of American species Hunt . A native of the Greater Antilles and Bahama Islands, the Bahama Finch or stripe-headed tanager is pictured in this stunning print among the leaves, flowers, and fruit of a broad leafed buiacium or boxwood tree, which is also indigenous to

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