Catesby Logger-head Turtle Hand-Colored Plate Publisher Danish Botanical Society Publisher

Publisher Danish Botanical Society Publisher Place Copenhagen

5 inches by 9

clean copy in near fine condition

Recent one-half green calf leather

Catesby Logger-head Turtle Hand-Colored Plate Publisher Danish Botanical Society PublisherHand 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