Catesby Logger-head Turtle Hand-Colored Plate 84 text-figures (line-drawings)

84 text-figures (line-drawings)

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Publisher Joannis Martyn Publisher Place Londini Date Published 1676 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near Fine Condition Description There is a touch of faint foxing to a few of the text pages

Catesby Logger-head Turtle Hand-Colored Plate 84 text-figures (line-drawings)Hand colored lithographic plate, image size 13. 75 inches wide by 10 inches long, page size approximately 21 inches wide by 13 inches long. From: Catesby, M., The Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands, 1736 1771, Volume 2, plate number 40. Image depicts a green turtle ("Testudo marina Cauanna", now Caretta caretta Linnaeus). Plate was previously framed without accompanying text. This hand colored plate came from either the first or