BIB_ID
81557
Accession number
MA 6038
Creator
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1954.
Description
1 item (11 pages) ; 26.3 x 18.5 and 27 x 19 cm
Notes
The leaves are foliated: 4, 10-11, 16 (2 leaves) and 19, corresponding to those in the volume as published.
With some corrections and additions by the author.
Removed from a copy of Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands held by the Morgan Library (PML 45708-09).
With some corrections and additions by the author.
Removed from a copy of Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands held by the Morgan Library (PML 45708-09).
Provenance
Henry S. Morgan.
Summary
Consisting of entries on the following specimens of North American birds, fish, insects and plants: (1) Vespa Johneumon tripilis Pensylvaniensis (marked f. 4, written on recto only); (2) Ardea cristata maxima Americana. The largest Crested Heron (marked f. 10, recto/verso); (3) recto: Scarobeus Pitutoaris Americanus. The Tumble turds. verso: Lilium sive Martagon Canadense, floribus magis reflexis, non reflexis (marked f. 11); (4) Caprimulgus minor Americanus, The Whip-poor-Will (one of two leaves marked f. 16, recto/verso); (5) Aureliana Canadensis R.P. Lafiteau. The Ginseng or Ninsin of the Chinese (one of two leaves marked f. 16, recto/verso); (6) recto: Vipera Marina. The Viper Mouth. verso: Cataphractus Americanus (marked f. 19-19v). Catesby refers throughout to the work of contemporary naturalists, among them John Bartram, Peter Collinson, James Petiver, Sir Hans Sloane, John Clayton and Pierre Jartoux, as well as classical sources like Pliny and Aristotle.
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