Lot 105: BAUER, Ferdinand Lukas (1760-1826). Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae sive icones generum... descripsit Robertus Brown . London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1989. 2° (625 x 490mm). 15 engraved plates by and after Bauer, in two states,

BAUER, Ferdinand Lukas (1760-1826). Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae sive icones generum... descripsit Robertus Brown. London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1989. 2° (625 x 490mm). 15 engraved plates by and after Bauer, in two states, sepia and bound, and hand-coloured (by Karen Lightfoot and Helen Wellard) and individually mounted. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, all contained within a green morocco-backed solander box.

NUMBER VI OF 35 COPIES ONLY. Bauer accompanied Flinders on his voyage to Australia (1801-03). There he drew the plants that appear in the present work, with Bauer himself engraving the copper plates. The original publication appeared in three parts, between 1806 and 1813.

Voyages, Australasia & the Pacific
(Lots 105-112)