The Florilegium of Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia, 1768-1771 : [catalogue] / compiled by Hank Ebes
- Bib ID:
- 1740094
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ebes, Hank, 1944-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Ebes Douwma and Sotheby's Australia, 1988
- 200 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps ; 30 cm. + Sale catalogue.
- ISBN:
- 0949367338
- Notes:
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- Cover title of full catalogue and sale catalogue: The Florilegium, Cook, Banks, Parkinson, 1768-1771.
- Published by Ebes Douwma Antique Prints and Maps, Melbourne, and Sotheby's Australia, Paddington, in association with Editions Alecto Limited and British Museum (Natural History).
- Sales of selected lithographs and engravings from the Florilegium were held in Sydney, June 26, 1988, and in Melbourne, July 2, 1988.
- "This book provides for the first time ... a complete visual reference to the entire collection of engravings from the original Banksian copperplates produced in the late 18th century but unpublished contemporarily, known as the "florilegium"--P. 4.
- Reproduces the 30 plates from: Captain Cook's florilegium; and the 738 plates from: Banks' florilegium, shown several images to a page.
- Includes indexes.
- Subject:
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- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- Pictorial works -- Catalogs
- Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
- Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771 -- Catalogs
- Banks' florilegium -- Catalogs
- Captain Cook's florilegium -- Catalogs
- Prints -- Limited editions -- England -- Catalogs
- Botanical illustration -- Catalogs
- Engraving, English -- Catalogs
- Botany -- Australia -- Pictorial works -- Catalogs
- Botany -- Pacific Area -- Pictorial works -- Catalogs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1988
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