Captain Cook's florilegium
By: a selection of engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's first voyage to the islands of the Pacific, with accounts of the voyage by Wilfrid Blunt and of the botanical explorations and prints by William T. Stearn.
Contributors: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820.; Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782.; Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-; Stearn, William T. 1911-; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Lion and Unicorn Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Endeavour (Ship); Botany -- Oceania -- Pictorial works; Botany -- Brazil -- Pictorial works; Botanical illustration
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Engravings, based on drawings by artist Sydney Parkinson, made from the original plates produced by various engravers under Banks' direction. Unpublished until now, the plates are preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). All 738 were issued in color in the early 1980's as: Banks' florilegium.
Limited ed. of 100 copies, no. 11.