Banks' Florilegium
Subtitle: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. : Java.
Contributors: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820.; Solander, Daniel.; Parkinson, Sydney, b.1745.; Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Publisher: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History)
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Edition limited to 100 sets.

Engravings printed in colour a la poupe e.