Mark Catesby's 2nd Edition of The Natural History of Carolina... "THE

"THE MOST FAMOUS COLORPLATE BOOK OF AMERICAN PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE AND A FUNDAMENTAL AND ORIGINAL WORK FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN SPECIES" (Hunt). CATESBY, Mark (1683–1749). The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants: Particularly, the Forest-Trees, Shrubs, and other Plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by Authors. Together with their Descriptions in English and French. To which are added, Observations on the Air, Soil, and Waters: With Remarks upon Agriculture, Grain, Pulse, Roots &c. To the whole, Is Prefixed a new and correct Map of the Countries Treated of. By the Late Mark Catesby, F.R.S. Revis’d by Mr. Edwards, of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Vol. I[-II] Histoire Naturelle de La Caroline, la Floride, & des Iles de Bahama, Contenant les Desseins Des Oiseaux, des Animaux, des Poissons, des Serpens, des Insectes, & des Plantes. Qui se trouvent dans ces pays là; & en particulier, des Arbres des Forêts, Arbrisseaux, & autres Plantes, qui n’ont point été décrits jusques à present par les Auteurs, ou qui ont été peu exactement dessinés. Avec leurs Descriptions en François & en Anglois. A quoi on a ajoûté Des Observations sur l’Air, le Sol, & les Eaux, Avec des Remarques sur l’Agriculture, les Grains, les Légumes, les Racines &c. Le tout est précédé d’une Carte nouvelle & exacte des Pays dont ils s’agît. Par Feu Monsieur Marc Catesby, de la Société Royale, Et revû par Monsieur Edwards, du College Royal des Médecins de Londres. Tome I[-II]. London: Charles Marsh, Thomas Wilcox and Benjamin Stichall; 1754. Second edition. Here is what AI says it’s worth: $100,000. Cost: Private, $108,000 Two volumes. Folio (20 3/8” x 14 ¼”, 517mm x 361mm). Vol. I: a2 b-c2 A-Bb2 2A-L2 [$1 signed]. 76 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication to the (late) Queen) i-vii [1] (blank) 1-100, 2i-xliv (Account of Carolina). With a folding hand-colored engraved map and 100 hand-colored engraved plates. Vol. II: π1 a1 B-Cc2 *2 **1 2A-E2 χ1 [$1 signed]. 66 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication to the Princess of Wales) 1-100 [6] (6pp. index), 21-20 (Appendix) [2] (index to the supplement, blank). With 120 hand-colored engraved plates (100 in the main work, 20 in the supplement). With a folding hand-colored engraved map and 220 hand-colored engraved plates in toto. Bound in later (XIXc?) mottled sheep (re-backed) with a gilt fillet border. On the spine, seven raised bands. Author and title gilt to red sheep in the second panel, number gilt to the third. All edges of the text-block stained red. Presented in custom half green morocco clam-shell boxes. Re-backed. Scuffs, particularly to the edges, with in-fill and strengthening to the peripheries. Evenly tanned throughout, with some offsetting and pigment-oxidation. Stain to p. 47 in vol. II (not affecting the text). Pl. 83 and 11 (of the supplement) in vol. II chipped peripherally from mis-alignment. Book-labels of Gilbert Butler to the recto of the front paste-down of each volume as well as to the clam-shell boxes. Mark Catesby (1683–1749) was a pioneering naturalist who drew no boundaries around his interests. An inheritance from his father allowed him to cross the Atlantic to Virginia in 1712, and to make return journeys that brought him along the Atlantic coastline and to the Bahamas. He sent specimens back to Sir Hans Sloane, and meanwhile described and drew what he had seen in the unspoiled and unsettled southern part of the American Atlantic. Returning for good to England in 1726, and with the encouragement of Sloane and other members of the Royal Society — to which Catesby was belatedly elected in 1733 — spent the next two decades bringing his monumental account to completion. The bilingual text allowed the work to reach the widest possible audience in Europe. Although some are by others (notably Georg Ehret), the great majority of the plates were drawn and engraved by Catesby himself. He writes in the preface that he believes the illustration to surpass the description in importance, and it is those illustrations that made the Natural History popular enough to go into two further eighteenth-century editions (this second edition — not pace the title, revised at all by George Edwards, but simply seen through the press after Catesby’s death — being made up in large part from remaining sheets from the first) as well as continental piracies. Catesby’s style might seem naïve, but they considerably surpass the stiff — heraldic, even — illustrations — especially of birds — that had come before. His juxtaposition of fauna against flora, bringing a sense of landscape as well as behavior, was groundbreaking, and of great influence on his successors, especially Audubon. Gilbert Butler (b. 1937) graduated from Harvard and Columbia Business School before establishing Butler Capital Corporation in 1981. There he pioneered mezzanine lending (also called bridge loans) and came to manage the pension funds of IBM, the World Bank, Cornell and other major institutions. Since 2000, Butler with his wife Ildiko have become philanthropists with twin interests in the arts and in conservation. Butler Parklands focuses on coastal wetlands preservation, permanently retiring thousands of acres from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile to protect their flora and fauna. The Black River Cypress Preserve in the low country of South Carolina is a major focus of the organization, and doubtless the origin of Butler’s interest in Catesby, one of the earliest to traverse and document the region’s landscape and life. Anker 94; Pritzel 1602; Stafleu-Cowan 1057 (first, with note).

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