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Mark Catesby was born on March 24, 1683 at Sudbury, in Suffolk, England.
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Mark Catesby (1683 - 1749) was a pioneer of botanical exploration. Driven by his curiosity to observe the plants and animals that were “strangers to England,” he traveled to Virginia where he stayed with relatives. During that seven year period (1712 - 1719), he sent plants back to friends in England, in particular Mr. Dale of Essex. He also sent along some observations which were then communicated to William Sherard, a celebrated English Botanist. An elite group of men befriended and eventually sponsored Catesby’s second voyage to America. That voyage lasted from 1722 until 1726 to areas such as Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas regions. Upon his return, he was encouraged to print a book about his observations but found the engraving costs to be too expensive. He decided to engrave plates himself and took a unique and more laborious approach to their production. A selection of those prints are included in this publication.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Cambridge University Library T201382 Parallel French and English texts. London : printed for C. Marsh, T. Wilcox, and B. Stichall, 1754. 2v.,220 plates : map ; 2°
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Mark Catesby was born on March 24, 1683 at Sudbury, in Suffolk, England.
He developed an early interest in natural science and went to London the better to study it.
He first landed in America in 1712, in Virginia, where he had relatives living. He remained there seven years, sending back to England collections of seeds and plants; then returned to England, and planned, with the assistance and encouragement of (among others) Sir Hans Sloane, Dr. William Sherard, the botanist, and Gov. Nicholson of South Carolina, an examination of the natural history of the Southern colonies and the Bahamas. He landed at Charleston in May 1722, and spent about three years studying and collecting the fauna and flora of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. He also visited the Bahamas, returning to England in 1726. He then settled at Hoxton; mastered the art of etching; and wrote and illustrated his most considerable work, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Published in parts, in large folio, with the text in French and English, the first volume was completed in 1731, the second in 1743, and an appendix in 1748. The book was illustrated with over 200 plates, the figures etched by Catesby himself, from his own paintings, and the first colored copies tinted under his inspection. Some of the work was later reproduced. It drew considerable interest, both among the wealthy dilettanti to whom it was addressed, and also among the learned. Catesby was elected to the Royal Society in 1733, and in 1747 read a paper before that body (printed in Philosophical Transactions the same year) upon the migration of birds, in which he rightly refuted the belief in their hibernating under water, although so good a naturalist as Gilbert White hankered after the theory, more than a generation later. Catesby gave examples from among the South Carolina birds. He wrote, also, Hortus Britanno-Americanus: or, A Curious Collection of Trees and Shrubs, which illustrated work, issued posthumously in 1763-67, encouraged the introduction into Europe of North American trees and shrubs. He enjoyed many friendships, notably in the Royal Society, by "his modesty, ingenuity and upright behavior".
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(Mark Catesby (1683 - 1749) was a pioneer of botanical exp...)
