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Shelfmark

If1.1.04 (26 plates); NHM (14 plates)

Additional shelfmark

[Continuation shelfmark:] NHM (14 plates)

Author

Title

[Banks' Florilegium : a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 / the specimens were gathered and classified by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784, after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson].

Publication, distribution, etc.

[London : Alecto Historical Editions, c. 1980].

Physical description

40 plates : ill. (some col.) ; 56 cm. [5 partial plates, varying in size from 10 x 18cm. to 39cm.]

Note

Proofing material for Banks' Florilegium: pre-edition trial prints for plates 7, 22, 38 and 48.

Note

Ms. notes on some plates.

Note

The plates from which this ed. was printed were prepared under Banks' direction by various engravers, but were never used until 1973, when a selection of them was published under the auspices of the present owner, British Museum (Natural History), as: Captain Cook's florilegium.

Copy-specific note

[If1.1.04] Wrapped in brown packing paper.

Subject

Subject

Botany Australia.

Subject

Botanical illustration England.

Subject

Voyages around the world History Pictorial works 18th century.

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Humphries, C.J., 1947 - ? (Christopher John) ed.

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British Museum (Natural History)

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England London.

Identifier

B25820
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