Joseph Banks' Florilegium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joseph Banks' Florilegium write by Mel Gooding. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Joseph Banks' Florilegium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compact edition of Joseph Banks’ extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook’s first voyage. Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. On his return, Banks commissioned over 700 engravings. Known collectively as Banks’ Florilegium, they are some of the most precise and exquisite examples of botanical illustration ever created. The Florilegium was never published in Banks’ lifetime, and it was not until 1990 that a complete set in color was issued under the direction of the British Museum. It is from these prints that the new compact edition of Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is selected, as directed by David Mabberley, who has provided expert botanical commentaries. Art historian Mel Gooding sets the works in context while an afterword by Joe Studholme describes the history of modern printing. Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is not only a great work of science, but also a major achievement in collaborative Enlightenment art and a volume of outstanding beauty.
Joseph Banks' Florilegium
Joseph Banks' Florilegium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joseph Banks' Florilegium write by David Mabberley. This book was released on 2017. Joseph Banks' Florilegium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook's first voyage, published for the first time in book form
Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joseph Banks write by Patrick O'Brian. This book was released on 1997-12-08. Joseph Banks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration. "It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage [on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like, with its 94 male souls, two dogs, a cat and a goat."—Linda Colley, New York Times "An absorbing, finely written overview, meant for the general reader, of a major figure in the history of natural science."—Frank Stewart, Los Angeles Times "[This book is] the definitive biography of an extraordinary subject."—Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "His skill at narrative and his extensive knowledge of the maritime history . . . give him a definite leg up in telling this . . . story."—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle
The Flowering of the Pacific
The Flowering of the Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flowering of the Pacific write by Brian Adams. This book was released on 1986. The Flowering of the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants
Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants write by Basilius Besler. This book was released on 2016. Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 367 exquisite plates, this treasure of botanical literature records the flowers of the palatial grounds at Eichstätt, Bavaria, once some of the most beautiful gardens in history. The illustrations are organized by season and, following the classification system used today, show plants belonging to a total of 90 families and covering 340 genera.
