Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1983. Oblong format, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Thornton's Temple of Flora with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings.
London: Collins, 1951. Large folio, 31 coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's half morocco and slipcase, spine lightly sunned. Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the three contributors. More
Flower paintings of Ellis Rowan, from the collection of the National Library of Australia.
Canberra: National Library of Australia, (1982. first edition). Folio, 20 colour plates by Ellis Rowan. Publisher's quarter cloth and canvas boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
The work of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues: a Huguenot artist in France, Florida and England.
London: British Museum, 1977. Quarto, two volumes, 144 plates. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, inscribed by the author for Margaret Stones, with her bookplate. Volume 1: Foreword, catalogue and introductory studies. Volume 2: The plates. More
Potted histories: an artistic voyage through plant exploration.
London: Scriptum Editions, 2003. Quarto, colour plates, bookplate, dustwrapper. Through botanical paintings and essays this book examines the fascinating history of plants and flowers. Over 20 families are profiled, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips and waterlilies. More
The artist and the patron: aspects of colonial art in New South Wales.
Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, illustrations, softcover, fine copy. More
Empire's nature: Mark Catesby's new world vision.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Inspired by a major travelling exhibition of Catesby's watercolour drawings from the Royal Library, this interdisciplinary collection considers Mark Catesby's endeavours as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of..... More
The magnificent botanical library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein collected by the late Arpad Plesch: Parts 1-3. Part 1, A-G. Part 2, H-P. Part 3, Q-Z and addenda.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975 -1976. Quarto, colour and black and white plates, good set in paper covered boards with light wear, top edge very lightly foxed. Auction catalogue. More
Gentle conquest: the botanical discovery of North America, with illustrations from the Library of Congress
Washington: Starwood Publishing, 1992. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Contemporary botanical artists: the Shirley Sherwood collection.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Minor wear to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. This text celebrates the renaissance of botanical art, presenting work collected during the early 1990s from over 100 painters living in 16 different countries around the world. Each painting is fully augmented with..... More
The magnificent botanical library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein collected by the late Arpad Plesch: Part 3, Q-Z and addenda.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976. Quarto, colour and black and white plates, good copy in paper covered boards. Auction catalogue. More
A naturalist’s sketch book.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. Large quarto, 60 plates (24 in colour). Publisher's red cloth, a few light flecks otherwise a very good copy. More
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