The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. With an Introduction by Wilfred Blunt

[FLINDERS, Matthew] [BAUER, Ferdinand] STEARN, William T.

Verlag: Basilisk Press, London, 1976

Beschreibung

London, Basilisk Press, 1976 (first edition). Folio (640 × 455 mm), [88] pages with a small map, a double-page map and 25 mounted colour plates. Dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards; a fine copy in the lightly-marked cloth-covered clamshell box (with the printed paper title-label on the spine a little stained by an adhesive sticker no longer present). Number 75 of 515 copies. 'This volume reproduces 25 coloured drawings of Australian plants made in 1801-5 by Ferdinand Lukas Bauer when he was official Botanical Draughtsman' on the 'Investigator' under Matthew Flinders. The plates, selected from among 236 held in the British Museum, are published here for the first time, and 'they depict gracefully and accurately the diversity of plants from Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory which were then new to science'. Each plate is accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, with notes by Stearn, a locality map and the 'remarkably detailed Latin descriptions' by Robert Brown, the expedition's botanist; much of this material is also published here for the first time. 'Robert Brown (1773-1858) was the greatest systematic botanist and Ferdinand Lukas Bauer (1760-1826) was the greatest botanical artist ever to set foot in Australia', and Stearn's text outlines their outstanding contribution. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 124198

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand...

Verlag: Basilisk Press, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.