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 in English and French : 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 by Mark Catesby = Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les Isles Bahama : contenant les desseins des oiseaux, animaux, poissons, serpents, insectes, & plantes, et en particulier, des arbres des forets, arbrisseaux, & autres plantes, qui n'ont point eÌteÌ decrits, jusques aÌ present par les auteurs, ou peu exactement dessineÌs : avec leur descriptions en francÌ§ois & en anglois : aÌ quoi on a adjouteÌ, 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 precedeÌ d'une carte nouvelle & exacte des paiÌs dont il s'agist / par Marc Catesby
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Relation de la Caroline, et des Isles de Bahama\": volume 1, pages i-xliv"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Head- and tail-pieces; initials"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Pagination: volume 1: i-iv, [2], v-xii, xliv, 100 pages, [2], 100 leaves of plates (the map is printed on folded double leaves, tipped in on a stub); volume 2: 100 pages, [100] leaves of plates; appendix (bound at end of volume 2): 20 pages, 20 plates; [8] pages (=indexes)"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The first edition exists in several different typesettings, since some sections were reset and printed for additional subscribers, and minor typographical errors were corrected. The typesetting of the last line of French text on page 9 is diagnostic for identifying the version of an individual copy (possible endings include: \"ver.\"; \"l'hiver.\"; or \"d'un grand usage.\")"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The first twenty pages of descriptive text in volume 2 are misnumbered as 121-140. In most copies, these erroneous page numbers were corrected at the time of publication with lead white paint (usually now oxidized to a silvery gray or reddish stain); the number for page 20 has also been corrected in handwritten ink"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The indexes (on 7 unnumbered pages, with verso of the final page blank) are generally bound in volume 2 following the Appendix"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The title pages are printed in red and black"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The word \"prefixed\" in the subtitle of volume 1 was originally printed as \"perfixed,\" with the corrected spelling of the first three letters appearing on a printed label mounted on the title page"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Volume 1 is dedicated to Queen Caroline; volume 2 is dedicated to the Princess of Wales, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Work originally issued in 11 parts, each including 20 plates (volume 1 issued in parts 1-5, between 1729-1732; volume 2 issued in parts 6-10, between 1734-1743; and the Appendix, issued in 1747). The title page for volume 1 is dated 1731, and the title page for volume 2 is dated 1743. Catesby is on record as having presented the completed Appendix to the Royal Society on 2 July 1747 (Royal Society journal book, volume 20, page 307)"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "English short title catalogue T147031"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, Bd. 1, no. 842"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The important ornithological library formed by the late Dr. Evan Morton Evans [for sale no. 1631, on 6-7 December 1955] (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955), item no. 154"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Elecresource"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB has two copies"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 (volume 1, 39088016711673; volume 2, 39088016711715) has armorial bookplate: Sir John Abdy, Bart. of Albyns in Essex. The arms of Cromwell Mortimer, secretary of the Royal Society and an original subscriber, are stamped in gold on the covers (the arms were identified by Philip Oldfield of the University of Toronto). There is an old shelfmark from an unidentified collection handwritten in ink on the front free endpaper: 1 N. 29"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 has a contemporary gilt- and blind-tooled full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt; re-backed. Both volumes are housed in later brown cloth-covered boxes with gilt-tooled black leather spine labels, and snap closures at the fore-edges. The box for volume 1 is signed: Bound by James MacDonald Co., New York City"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 is believed to have been donated to the Smithsonian by Marcia Brady Tucker, although the copy lacks the usual provenance markings from her private library. 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