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London: the Basilisk Press. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/None. Elephant folio. Fine green quarter morocco, marbled boards, in original case with title label (case lightly shelforn). No. 441 of 515 copies. With 25 full page colored plates. Due to size, this cannot be shipped internationally. ; 30 pages

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany . 1st. Ed. Pub. Basilisk Press, London. 1976. A superb production with 25 colour lithographed plates mounted on heavy gauge green paper. Supporting text and a distribution map provide a description for each plant presented. Elephant folio. Hardback. Bound in publisher’s quarter green morocco over marbled boards, with lettering to spine. Fine condition. Housed in publisher’s linen covered solander box marked and rubbed in places. From a limited edition of 515 copies of which this is No. 405. Wilfrid Blunt wrote of Ferdinand Bauer and his brother Francis ‘one thing is certain: the last 200 years can show no artist of the calibre of either of these brilliant brothers’. This volume contains 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. These plates were never reproduced in book format until the Basilisk Press did so. Indeed the selection… Read More

London: Basilisk Press, 1976. Limited Edition. No. 280 of 515 copies printed. Elephant folio (65cm). Backed in green leather with green marbled paper-covered boards, corners reinforced with vellum, titled in blind on spine, inside clamshell case covered in grey cloth, titled in black on green paper spine label; dark green endpapers with hinges reinforced with grey cloth, as issued; [1-8] 9-30, [58]pp; 25 plates laid down on inserted green leaves. Cloth clamshell case gently rubbed, with one or two smudges to cloth, spine label lightly rubbed: Very Good. The book itself is Near Fine. "This volume reproduces 25 coloured drawings of Australian plants made in 1801-5 by Ferdinand Luykas Bauer when he was official Botanical Draughtsman" under the supervision of botanist Robert Brown, on Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia. NOTE: this is a large, heavy volume, and may not be possible to ship to all destinations. If you wish to place an order from outside the United States, please inquire… Read More

London: The Basilisk Press, 1975. Folio [measures 638mm x 455mm], quarter morocco and marbled boards, pp 30, double page map + 25 fine mounted colour plates with accompanying text, (one plate slightly waved). otherwise a very good copy in fitted cloth-covered box (a little marked and faded). [Limited edition of 515 copies - this being number 200] . [Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required.]. First Edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good.

London: The Basilisk Press, 1992. revised edition. Nice copy. elephant folio. 1/4 leather over cloth boards 1-8] 9-30, [58]pp., colour plates, maps, index, With 25 full-page tipped-in colour plates. Superb production. Copy number 421of 500 copies for sale. Reproducing a selection of the paintings made by Ferdinand Bauer when engaged as an artist on Mathew Flinder's expedition to circumnavigate Australia. Copy number 421. Fine green quarter morocco, marbled boards, in original solander with title label. Massive volume: 64 x 45 cms.

London; Basilisk Press; 1976.. 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. 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.