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, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions ... To which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters: with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of.

A water-color drawing of a swallow-tailed kite, not by Catesby, inserted in v. 1, facing page 4.
For correction of date of birth see Bibliographical Society of America, Papers, 1960. v. 54, p. 168.
English and French in parallel columns.
Vol. 1: [2], xii, 100, 20, [2] p. (p. [2] of 1st group and [1] of last group blank), [120] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 100, xliv, [6] p. (p. [2] of 1st group blank), [101] leaves of plates (leaf [101] folded).
Includes indexes.
Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les Isles Bahama: contenant les desseins des oiseaux, animaux, poissons, serpents, insectes, & plantes. ... Avec leur descriptions en françois & en anglois. A quoi on a adjouté, des observations sur l'air, le sol, & les eaux, avec des remarques sur l'agriculture, les grains, les legumes, les racines, &c. Le tout est precedé d'une carte nouvelle & exacte des païs dont il s'agist. / Par Marc Catesby. ...
"The figures were etched by himself from his own paintings, and the colored copies executed under his inspection."--Appleton's cyclopedia of Amer. biog., v. 1, p. 557. Vol. 2, pl. 61 by G.D. Ehret.
Vol. 2, pl. 61 unnumbered.
Contains supplement: An account of Carolina and the Bahama islands. Relation de la Caroline, et des isles de Bahama. xliv p. Also Appendix. 1748? 20 p. 20 col. pl.
The plates have Linnaean names added in pencil in the hand of David Pennant.
Indexes from a later ed. inserted at the end of each volume. 4 p. MS index inserted at the end of v. 1.
Portions of Catesby's original MS, a letter from George Edwards to Thomas Pennant, 5 Dec., 1761, and various drawings and sketches, including Catesby originals, previously inserted in these volumes, have been removed and separately catalogued as MA 6038, MA 1550, and 1961.6:1-15 respectively.
Note in the hand of Thomas Pennant on front fly-leaf: "These books colored by the author I bought from his nephew Mr. Catesby Haberdasher in Henrietta Street Covent Garden. Together with some of the original drawings." Signature of Jekyll Catesby on back fly-leaf of v. 1.
Appendix, plates 3, 7, 9, unnumbered; pl. 19 numbered 20.
Vol. 2, p. 59 numbered 56, but corrected in ink.
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