extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance
BAUER, Ferdinand.
Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae sive Icones Generrum...
London, by the author, 1813.
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First and only edition, one of fifty copies.
Australian botanical illustrator Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826) was one of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia. Working under the direction of the botanist Robert Brown, Bauer recorded not only botanical but also zoological specimens. Flinders was impressed with his work, writing that his and Brown's 'application is beyond what I have been accustomed to see'.
Returning to England in October 1805, Bauer was given permission to publish an account of his travels by the Admiralty, and spent five years working on Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae, doing all the engraving himself, whilst also contributing ten plates to Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis. Fifty sets of the Illustrationes... were published in three parts between 1806 and 1813, however as a publishing venture it was a failure and in 1814 Bauer returned to Vienna.
First (only) edition, one of 50 copies; folio (472 x 312mm approx.); vii, [1](blank)pp.; 15 fine engraved plates (uncoloured); contemporary decorative marbled boards with red morocco label to spine, upper section of upper joint cracked but firm, otherwise a superb copy, contained within a modern buckram clam-shell box, this with morocco label to spine.
Ferguson 549 (noting 5 copies; 2 colored); Great Flower Books, p.49; Nissen BBI, 96.
Australian botanical illustrator Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826) was one of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia. Working under the direction of the botanist Robert Brown, Bauer recorded not only botanical but also zoological specimens. Flinders was impressed with his work, writing that his and Brown's 'application is beyond what I have been accustomed to see'.
Returning to England in October 1805, Bauer was given permission to publish an account of his travels by the Admiralty, and spent five years working on Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae, doing all the engraving himself, whilst also contributing ten plates to Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis. Fifty sets of the Illustrationes... were published in three parts between 1806 and 1813, however as a publishing venture it was a failure and in 1814 Bauer returned to Vienna.
First (only) edition, one of 50 copies; folio (472 x 312mm approx.); vii, [1](blank)pp.; 15 fine engraved plates (uncoloured); contemporary decorative marbled boards with red morocco label to spine, upper section of upper joint cracked but firm, otherwise a superb copy, contained within a modern buckram clam-shell box, this with morocco label to spine.
Ferguson 549 (noting 5 copies; 2 colored); Great Flower Books, p.49; Nissen BBI, 96.
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Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae
Regular price
£40,000.00
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£40,000.00
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KNOOP, Johann Hermann; HUTH, Georg Leonhart (translator).
Pomologia,
1760 & 1766.
First German language edition of the most important fruit book of the 18th century.
£6,500.00
