If1.1.04 (26 plates); NHM (14 plates)
[Continuation shelfmark:] NHM (14 plates)
[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].
[London : Alecto Historical Editions, c. 1980].
40 plates : ill. (some col.) ; 56 cm. [5 partial plates, varying in size from 10 x 18cm. to 39cm.]
Proofing material for Banks' Florilegium: pre-edition trial prints for plates 7, 22, 38 and 48.
Ms. notes on some plates.
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.
[If1.1.04] Wrapped in brown packing paper.
Botany Australia.
Botanical illustration England.
Voyages around the world History Pictorial works 18th century.
Studholme, Joseph donor.
Diment, Judith ed.
Humphries, C.J., 1947 - ? (Christopher John) ed.
British Museum (Natural History)
England London.
B25820