Lot 2: 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.