(British, 1679-1749)
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...with their Descriptions in English and French...Revis'd by Mr. [George] Edwards. London: Printed for C[harles] Marsh and T[homas] Wilcox, 1754. volumes I and II with the appendix bound into volume I, hand-colored engravings, plates 1-100 (lacking 31 plates), plus the folding hand colored engraved map, all the plates on laid paper with prints bearing the Strasbourg Lily watermark with "GR" pendant, text pages on laid paper with "J. Whatman": bound in full red straight grain Morocco with gilt ornate foliate and repeating phoenix decoration, marbled endpapers
Provenance: Lord Egerton, Tatton Park, Cheshire England (Bookplate); Arpad Plesch (Hungarian, 1889-1974) (leather bookplate), 1975; Private Georgia Collection
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Lord Egerton, Tatton Park, Cheshire England (Bookplate); Arpad Plesch (Hungarian, 1889-1974) (leather bookplate), 1975; Private Georgia Collection
colors strong, ghosting images on opposing text sheets, general light foxing, some minor creases and short tears, a few pages shorter, some waviness to paper, some light staining, Yellow-breasted Chat extracted with hinging tape verso, interior blank pages with ink and pencil inscriptions; bindings with wear to the highly decorated spines and edges, some small stains and scratches and indentations to the covers, corners bumped, accretion
Lacking 31 plates as follows: Volume I is missing T. 22, 24, 39, 48, 49, 57, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 93, 97, 100; Volume II is missing T.84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 98; Appendix is missing 4-7,11,13,15,17
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