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Banks' Florilegium.
London: Editions Alecto, in association with the British Museum, 1980-1990.
A supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation
743 engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander. Printed in colours à la poupée from the original 18th century copper plates with five supplementary plates engraved between 1986.....
Price (AUD):
$94,500.00
Ref: #4505102
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn…
London: Printed for H.D. Symonds and Curtis, 1805.
Banks on disease in corn
Octavo, six engraved plates in the first work, and one folding engraved plate by Bauer in the second work; contemporary half calf (restored). One of remarkably few works by Joseph Banks to have appeared in print. Despite.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2308889
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn…
London: printed for J. Harding, 1805.
Sir Joseph Banks in print
Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate; with the half-title in "Mackaness" morocco, with the Mackaness bookplate. One of remarkably few works published by Banks, but an apt demonstration of his wide range of scientific interest.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3004121
Joseph Banks Esq.
London: W. Dickinson, 30 January 1774.
The classic portrait of Banks as a young man
Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed. In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4504653
The Great South Sea Caterpillar transform'd into a Bath butterfly.
London: Henry Bohn, no date, but 1851.
Sir Joseph Banks emerges from his chrysalis
Handcoloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm; mounted. Rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of the Bath for self-promotion. Portraits of Banks by the most famous artists of the day.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4108622