Catesby's Birds of Colonial America - Alan Feduccia - Hardcover

With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering "Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas." Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.Feduccia, Alan is the author of 'Catesby's Birds of Colonial America - Alan Feduccia - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780807816615 and ISBN 0807816612.