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LEADER: 03946cam 2200409 i 4500
001 9925256596601661
005 20160206063810.5
008 141108s2015 gauab b s001 0deng
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035 $a(OCoLC)892432126$z(OCoLC)915751765
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050 00 $aQH31.C35$bC87 2015
082 00 $a508.092$223
245 04 $aThe curious Mister Catesby :$ba "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds /$cedited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.
264 1 $aAthens :$bThe University of Georgia Press,$c2015.
300 $axviii, 425 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;$c29 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aWormsloe Foundation nature book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"The truly honest, ingenious, and modest Mr. Mark Catesby, F.R.S." : documenting his life (1682/83-1749) / E. Charles Nelson -- Behind the scenes : Catesby the man, viewed through the lens of a camera / Cynthia P. Neal -- Mark Catesby's botanical forerunners in Virginia / Karen Reeds -- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) : pioneering naturalist, artist, and inspiration for Catesby / Kay Etheridge and Florence F.J.M. Pieters -- William Dampier (1651-1715) : the pirate of exquisite mind / Diana Preston and Michael Preston -- John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina and his "Compleat history" : the Mark Catesby connection / Marcus B. Simpson Jr. -- Mark Catesby's world : England / Janet Browne -- Mark Catesby's world : Virginia / Sarah Hand Meacham -- Mark Catesby's Carolina adventure / Suzanne Linder Hurley -- Mark Catesby's Bahamian natural history (observed in 1725-1726) / Robert Robertson -- Mark Catesby's preparatory drawings for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Henrietta McBurney -- The publication of Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Leslie K. Overstreet -- The plant collections of Mark Catesby in Oxford / Stephen A. Harris -- Carl Linnaeus and the influence of Mark Catesby's botanical work / C.E. Jarvis -- The economic botany and ethnobotany of Mark Catesby / W. Hardy Eshhaugh -- "Of birds of passage" : Mark Catesby and contemporary theories on bird migration and torpor / Shepard Krech III -- Catesby's animals (other than birds) in The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Aaron M. Bauer -- Catesby's fundamental contributions to Linnaeus's binomial catalog of North American animals / Kraig Adler -- Mark Catesby's plant introductions and English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Following in the footsteps of Mark Catesby / Judith Magee -- Inspiration from The natural history of Carolina ... by Mark Catesby / Ghillean T. Prance -- Conclusions : Account, appendix, Hortus, and other endings among Mark Catesby's work / David J. Elliott -- Appendix : Identification of the plants and animals illustrated by Mark Catesby for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / James L. Reveal.
600 10 $aCatesby, Mark,$d1683-1749.
600 10 $aCatesby, Mark,$d1683-1749$xInfluence.
600 10 $aCatesby, Mark,$d1683-1749.$tNatural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.
700 1 $aNelson, E. Charles.
700 1 $aElliott, David J.$q(David John),$d1935-
830 0 $aWormsloe Foundation nature book.
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980 $a99970285831