Mark Catesby (1754) Natural History Carolina Florida Bahama Is * Flora Fauna v1

Description: Modern Book, Soft cover book. Book, Volume 1 (one, only) Author, Creators: Mark Catesby, 1683 to 1749; Revised By Mr. Edwards of Royal College of Physicians. -- London, Charles Marsh + Thomas Wilcox and Benjamin Stichall (1754) Title: (From the Title Page) 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, 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, etc. To the whole is prefixed a new and correct Map of the Countries treated of. By the Late Mark Catesby, F. R. S Revis'd by Mr. Edwards of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Vol. I Histoire Naturelle de La Caroline, la Floride, and les Isles Bahama : Contenant les Desseins Des Oiseaux, Animaux, Poissons, Serpents, Insectes and Plantes. Et en particulier des Arbres de Forets Arbrisseaux and autres Plantes, qui n'ont point ete decrits jusques a present par les auteurs ou peu exactement deffines. Avec leur Descriptions in Francois and en Anglois. A qui on a adjoute, Des Observations sur l'Air, le Sol, and les Eaux, avec des Remarques sur l'Agriculture, les Grains, les Legumes, les Racines, etc. Le tout est precede d'un Carte noubelle and exacte des Pais dont ils s'agist. Par le Feu Marc Catesby, de la Society Royale. Et reveu par Monsieur Edwards, Du college Royale des Medecins de Londres : Tome I Details: 260 pages. Volume 1 only. Privately published, exact text and illustrations reproduced in brilliant color. About 8" x 12.75" tome. Text is in both English and French. Simply a wonderful edition of Catesby's work in natural habitats of during early exploration of the United States. Subject, Features: Flora and fauna, habitat and exact drawings, etching style illustrations of the natural wonders of the new country now known as the United States. Reprint by Library Archive Services, it is undated, but clearly a modern edition. Produced for research purposes since the original text is fragile or very rare. Both book and text are clean and unmarked. Very good condition. Firmly desirable. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, flex covers, cloth bound, a sturdy book. Overall wonderful academic reprint book. It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you. Clean and Unmarked Text. Very Good condition. Modern, undated replica. Text is in English. Reproduced same as original issue. -- Defects: None found. Only bookshop edge wear from being on the shelf. About the Author: Catesby was born on 24 March 1683 and baptised at Castle Hedingham, Essex on 30 March 1683. His father, John Catesby (buried 12 November 1703), was a local politician and gentleman farmer. His mother was Elizabeth Jekyll (buried 5 September 1708). The family owned a farm and house, Holgate, in Sudbury, Suffolk as well as property in London. An acquaintance with the naturalist John Ray led to Catesby becoming interested in natural history. The death of his father left Catesby enough to live on, so in 1712, he accompanied his sister Elizabeth to Williamsburg, Virginia. She was the wife of Dr. William Cocke, who had been a member of the Council and Secretary of State for the Colony of Virginia. According to their father's will, Elizabeth had married Dr. Cocke against her father's wishes. Catesby visited the West Indies in 1714, and returned to Virginia, then home to England in 1719. Catesby had collected seeds and botanical specimens in Virginia and Jamaica. He sent the pressed specimens to Dr. Samuel Dale of Braintree in Essex, and gave seeds to a Hoxton nurseryman Thomas Fairchild as well as to Dale and to the Bishop of London, Dr Henry Compton. Plants from Virginia, raised from Catesby's seeds, made his name known to gardeners and scientists in England, and in 1722 he was recommended by William Sherard to undertake a plant-collecting expedition to Carolina on behalf of certain members of the Royal Society. From May 1722, Catesby was based in Charleston, South Carolina, and travelled to other parts of that colony, collecting plants and animals. He sent preserved specimens to Hans Sloane and to William Sherard, and seeds to various contacts including Sherard and Peter Collinson. Consequently, Catesby was responsible for introducing such plants as Catalpa bignonioides and the eponymous Catesbaea spinosa (lilythorn) to cultivation in Europe. Catesby returned to England in 1726. Catesby spent the next twenty years preparing and publishing his Natural History. Publication was financed by subscriptions from his "Encouragers" as well as an interest-free loan from one of the fellows of the Royal Society, the Quaker Peter Collinson. Catesby learnt how to etch the copper plates himself. The first eight plates had no backgrounds, but from then on Catesby included plants with his animals. He completed the first part in May 1729 and presented it to Queen Caroline; first volume, comprising five parts, was finished in November 1732. Mark Catesby was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in February 1733 and was made a member of the Society of Gentlemen of Spalding in December 1743. Notable: The ivory-billed woodpecker, which was sadly later to become extinct in North America, although one was reportedly sighted in the wild in Arkansas in 2005. The second volume containing another five parts was completed in December 1743, and in 1747 he produced a supplement from material sent to him by friends in America, particularly John Bartram, and also his younger brother, John, who was based with a British regiment in Gibraltar. Not all the plates in Natural history are by Catesby: several, including the splendid and famous image of Magnolia grandiflora were by Georg Ehret. Catesby's original preparatory drawings for Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands are in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and selections have been exhibited in USA, Japan and various places in England including at the Queen's Gallery, London, in 1997–1998, and Gainsborough's House in Sudbury in 2015. On 5 March 1747, Catesby read a paper entitled "Of birds of passage" to the Royal Society in London, and he is now recognised as one of the first people to describe bird migration. (Source, Wikipedia.) Enjoy! 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