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BAUER, FERDINAND; STEARN, WILLIAM T. - The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. With an Introduction by Wilfred Blunt.

Title: The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. With an Introduction by Wilfred Blunt.
Description: First Limited Edition; Elephant Folio; pp. (88) unpaginated; 25 full page mounted coloured plates, double page map, numerous smaller locality maps, bound in quarter dark green morocco and marbled papered boards, vellum tips, housed in its original clamshell canvas covered box, title label on spine of box, box shows a little wear and spotting otherwise a very good copy. London; Basilisk Press; 1976. Edition limited to 515 copies of which 500 are for sale. This being copy number 434. The plates appear here for the first from paintings made by Bauer in Australia, as draughtsman on Flinder's voyage in the Investigator between 1801 and 1805. The distribution maps, with each plate are Robert Brown's previously unpublished field sketch maps.

Keywords: natural history art australia

Price: AUD 1600.00 = appr. US$ 1106.99 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 119890