The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. Introduced by Wilfred Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn.
London: The Basilisk Press, [1976]. Bifolium prospectus, large folio; with information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Fine. "This new volume, containing a fine selection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance." Laid in is a representative color plate of Cochlospermum Gillivraei. Also includes announcements of the year's other Basilisk Editions: The Kelmscott Chaucer and The Red Books of Humphrey Repton. Item #60091
Price: $20.00
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