Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae

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Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae is an 1813 publication by the

botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer
.

Bauer was scientific illustrator on board

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, and later his own Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. Bauer then undertook to publish a lesser work himself, with Brown providing text limited to a brief preface and some captioning.[1]

Unusually, Bauer not only did all the illustrations, but also engraved the printing plates and hand-coloured the illustrations. It was exceedingly unusual for a single artist to perform all three roles; it is said that Bauer did the engraving himself because he could not find a good engraver, and previous works of his were disappointing because of incompetent engraving.[1]

Three issues of Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae were published, all in 1813. These three issues totalled fifteen plates, and a sixteenth was bound into some copies. Publication then ceased, probably because the venture was a financial failure.[1] It is estimated that less than fifty copies of the work were sold, and some of these were uncoloured. It is therefore now an extremely rare book. In 1997, a copy was sold at Christie's for $57,000.[2]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-643-06366-8
    .
  2. ^ "Bauer, Ferdinand". Retrieved 14 September 2007.

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