Published Resources Details
Edited Book
- Title
- The Florilegium of Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia, 1768-1771
- Type of Work
- Catalogue
- Imprint
- Ebes Douwma and Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 1988
- Description
Cover title of full catalogue and sale catalogue: The Florilegium, Cook, Banks, Parkinson, 1768-1771.
Published by Ebes Douwma Antique Prints and Maps, Melbourne, and Sotheby's Australia, Paddington, in association with Editions Alecto Limited and British Museum (Natural History).
Sales of selected lithographs and engravings from the Florilegium were held in Sydney, June 26, 1988, and in Melbourne, July 2, 1988.
"This book provides for the first time ... a complete visual reference to the entire collection of engravings from the original Banksian copperplates produced in the late 18th century but unpublished contemporarily, known as the "florilegium"--P. 4.
Reproduces the 30 plates from: Captain Cook's florilegium; and the 738 plates from: Banks' florilegium, shown several images to a page.