Author: Bauer, Ferdinand Lukas
Title: Prospectus of "Ferdinand Bauer's Natural History Drawings"; taken from the Zoological Specimens collected on the First Circumnavigation of Australia 1801-1803
Description: Alecto Historical Editions 1997 15, 1 col plate, col illus. . PB. Staple-bound. Vg. Colour mounted plate loosely inserted to rear.. This prospectus promoted a delux publication of just fifty sets of hand printed lithographs consisting of forty-six plates of Ferdinand Baurer's illustrations of mammals, birds, fishes and reptiles. The animals were collected from the coastline of Australia on Matthew Flinders' epic voyage..

Keywords: Australia; Oceania; Natural History Illustration


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