Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket and mylar cover; xviii, 272 pp; illustrated in bw and color. VG/VG. Item #123503
ISBN: 9780807824597
Includes five essays, as well as an artist chronology. "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." "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 - particulary as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise."--Jacket.
OCLC: 39108703
Price: $35.00