Joseph Banks' florilegium : botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage

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Label

Joseph Banks' florilegium : botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage

Title remainder

botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage

Statement of responsibility

with texts by Mel Gooding ; commentaries on the plates by David Mabberley ; and an afterword by Joe Studholme

Title variation

Florilegium

Contributor

• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
• Gooding, Mel,
• Mabberley, D. J.,
• Studholme, Joe,

Author

• Gooding, Mel,

Subject

• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 -- Travel -- Pacific Area
• Botanical illustration
• Botanical illustration -- England
• Botany
• Botany -- Pictorial works
• Endeavour
• England
• Forschungsreise
• Illustrated works
• Illustration
• Pacific Area
• Pflanzen
• Pflanzenbuch
• Pictorial works
• Travel
• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

Genre

• Pictorial works
• Illustrated works

Language

eng

Summary

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round 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 1300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. On his return, Banks commissioned over 700 superlative engravings between 1772 and 1784. 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 colour was issued in a boxed edition (limited to 100 copies) under the direction of the British Museum. It is from these prints that the present selection is made

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

QK5

LC item number

.J67 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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