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Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin by David J. Mabberley
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book - with many never-before-published images - reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and ...Show more
Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by David Mabberley; Mel Gooding; Joe Studholme; Anon
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Botanical Treasures from Cook's 1st Voyage
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer by David Mabberley
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as the greatest natural history painter of all time. Hand-picked by Joseph Banks, in 1801-1805 Bauer accompanied Matthew Flinders during his circumnavigation of Australia, and lived in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Already celebrated in Europe for the precision and ...Show more
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