| The flora and fauna of the New World were a matter of supreme interest to eighteenth-century European naturalists. The astute observations and detailed illustrations of Mark Catesby in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, which he published in sections beginning in 1731, were the first glimpse at what he termed the “productions of nature,” as well as the most complete natural history of that region. The two-volume work contained over two hundred plates that were engra (showing 500 of 6879 characters). |
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