natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Subtitle: containing the figures of birds, beasts ... : together with their descriptions in English and French :  to which are added observations on the air, soil, and waters ... : to the whole is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of : = Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les isles Bahama ...
Contributors: Taunton, Henry Labouchere, Baron, 1798-1869 (association)
Publisher: The Author, and sold by W. Innys [etc.]
Published: 1731
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works; Natural history -- Southern States; Natural history -- Bahamas; Natural history -- Pictorial works
Notes: On spine: Catesby's American history.

"The figures were etched by himself from his own paintings, and the colored copies executed under his inspection." - Appleton's cyclopedia of American biog.

The Appendix was probably printed in 1748.  Cf. Brit. Mus. cat.

Laid in are 2 leaves from the 3d ed. of 1771: A catalogue of the animals and plants represented in Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, with the Linnaean names.

The "Preface", "An account of Carolina and the Bahama Islands" (xliv p.) the map and the "Appendix" (20 p., 20 col. plates) bound in different order to that given by the Hunt botanical cat.

With a list of subscribers

Fisher copy: Bound in diced russia with gilt dentelle border. Armorial binding with the crest of Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton added later on black leather onlays at the base of the spines.