The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands

The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Title The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands PDF eBook
Author Mark Catesby
Publisher Рипол Классик
Pages 254
Release 1974
Genre History
ISBN 5879564703

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The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands

The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Title The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands PDF eBook
Author Mark Catesby
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1771
Genre Natural history
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The Curious Mister Catesby

The Curious Mister Catesby
Title The Curious Mister Catesby PDF eBook
Author E. Charles Nelson
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 448
Release 2015-03-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0820347264

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In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby’s biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby’s explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.

Illuminating Natural History

Illuminating Natural History
Title Illuminating Natural History PDF eBook
Author Henrietta McBurney
Publisher Paul Mellon Centre
Pages 384
Release 2021-06-22
Genre Art
ISBN 9781913107192

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This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683-1749). During Catesby's lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World--in Virginia (1712-19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722-26)--which he documented in Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first large-format, color-plate book on the natural history of North America. Interweaving elements of art history, history of science, natural history illustration, painting materials, book history, paper studies, garden history, and colonial history, this volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as previously unpublished letters by Catesby, with contemporary accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild, and details of the materials and techniques of packing and transporting plants and animals across the Atlantic.

Empire's Nature

Empire's Nature
Title Empire's Nature PDF eBook
Author Amy R. W. Meyers
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 608
Release 2012-12-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 080783856X

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Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.

Hortus Europæ Americanus: Or A Collection of 85 Curious Trees and Shrubs, The Produce of North America

Hortus Europæ Americanus: Or A Collection of 85 Curious Trees and Shrubs, The Produce of North America
Title Hortus Europæ Americanus: Or A Collection of 85 Curious Trees and Shrubs, The Produce of North America PDF eBook
Author Mark Catesby
Publisher
Pages 94
Release 1767
Genre
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Catesby's Birds of Colonial America

Catesby's Birds of Colonial America
Title Catesby's Birds of Colonial America PDF eBook
Author Alan Feduccia
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 222
Release 1999-02-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780807848166

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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all