CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749).
Broadside for “A Catalogue of American Trees and Shrubs that will endure the Climate of England”.
WITH engraving of Catesby’s Magnolia Grandiflora after Georg Ehret. C. 1742.
15 1/2” x 20” sheet.

One of the First Catalog’s of plants from America.

A copy of this broadside was likely pasted on the walls on Carl Linnaeus’ bedroom & was used to promote Catesby’s book, as well as, sell plants in Christopher Gray’s nursery. Very few exist because it was a broadside never meant to be saved.

Illustrated: Illuminating Natural History, McBurney, 2021 on the inside front cover and back cover; The Curious Mister Catesby, Commercial Considerations, p. 92-94, Janet Browne; “The Most Curious Traveller: Mark Catesby’s Consignment of Plants for Carl Linnaeus” by Henrietta McBurney, FLS.

“These Tree, with the rest of the Catalogue are to be had of Christopher Gray Nursery Man at Fulham near London. Where alse may be had Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Shrubs and Flowers.”