An extremely rare work. Mark Catesby’s ‘Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’ is a landmark colour plate book of North America. The first edition was published in London 1731-43. This work consisted of 220 plates of natural history and 1 beautiful map of the region. Between 1749 and 1776 Johann Michael Seligmann published ‘Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel’, a German edition which incorporated plates derived from the work of George Edwards also. The text from both was translated by Georg Leonhard Huth and Seligmann engraved the plates. All of the plates including the map were slightly reduced in size. In 1755 the introductory chapter of text which appears in volume two dated 1743 of the English edition entitled ‘An Account of Carolina and the Bahama Islands’ was issued in German with the same German version of the printed map. Refer Anker 462; Cumming South East 292; refer Dunthorne 72; Nissen Vogel no. 857.