Ferdinandi Bauer Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae, sive, Icones generum quae in Prodromo florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen descripsit Robertus Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Robert, 1773-1858.
Publisher: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History)
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: lat
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Brown, Robert, 1773-1858. -- Illustrations.; Botanical illustration -- Australia.; Botany -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Other titles: Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae.; Icones generum quae in Prodromo florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen descripsit Robertus Brown.
Notes: A hard-cover vol. containing text pages and the illustrations printed in sepia, issued in a solander case (69 cm.) together with the same illustrations colored and individually mounted.
"The 15 plates which make up this publication were stipple-engraved on copper by Ferdinand Bauer between 1806 and 1813 after his watercolours drawn from nature on Captain Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator 1801-1803. Both plates and watercolours are now in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). The plates, issued in three parts, were first published by Ferdinand Bauer himself in 1813 to accompany Robert Brown's Podromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen (1810). Fewer than 50 copies were made and Bauer abandoned his plans to publish further parts of the work. These new impressions, the first to be taken from the original copperplates since Bauer's 1813 edition, were printed by hand à la poupée and hand-finished in watercolour ..."--P. [7].
Text pages [9], [11-13] are reproduced from the 1813 ed.
"Edition size: 35 sets numbered I/XXXV to XXXV/XXXV, and one set of Master Proofs"--P. [7].
LC has set no. XXXIII/XXXV.
Source: Purchase, Nov. 5, 1990.