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Banks, Joseph and Solander, Daniel. Illustrations of the botany…
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22-Oct-2017
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Banks, Joseph and Solander, Daniel. Illustrations of the botany of Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71. London, Printed by order of the British Museum, 1900-05. Three volumes large folio, with 320 photolithographed plates and 3 folding maps (one with short sealed tear), contemporary half calf. Bottom margin of first title and of a few text leaves repaired, the plates unaffected. The first publication of these splendid large plates, from the copper engravings prepared under Banks's supervision in the eighteenth century, after the drawings made on the voyage, but which had remained unpublished. Further volumes were planned but only these three, entirely devoted to Australian plants, were completed, at great cost, in an edition of 300 sets.
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