"A Map of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands with the Adjacent Parts"

by Mark Catesby

from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

London, 1731

Paper Size: 20"x 25 3/8"

(hand-colored copper plate engraving)

Overall condition very good with some toning, and some light offsetting.

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This map was based largely on Henry Popple’s “A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto” of 1733. The subscribers to Mark Catesby’s celebrated Natural History received this map bound into their volumes to illustrate the area with which Catesby dealt in his famous work illustrating plants, animals, birds, fish, and insects of America. This scarce map, embellished with a seaweed and seashell covered cartouche, is considered by many to be one of the most highly prized maps of the colonial South. Cumming No. 210.