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Price: £14.00
Publisher: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh: 1986
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 15799
ISBN: 0 913196 49 5
Condition: New
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1986, focussing on the development of processes by which original botanical drawings were reproduced in print. It includes examples from many great artists, including Ehret, Edwards, Francis Bauer, Thomas Bewick (reproducing the work of Henderson) and Besler (engraved by Killin). The commentary includes several hints as to how the different methods of printing can be identified, and describes the complex procedure involved in producing colour relief half-tones. 167 pp. View more info
Price: £32.00
Publisher: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh: 1986
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 6352
ISBN: 0 913196 49 5
Condition: New
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1986, focussing on the development of processes by which original botanical drawings were reproduced in print. It includes examples from many great artists, including Ehret, Edwards, Francis Bauer, Thomas Bewick (reproducing the work of Henderson) and Besler (engraved by Killin). The commentary includes several hints as to how the different methods of printing can be identified, and describes the complex procedure involved in producing colour relief half-tones. 167 pp. View more info
By: Kiger, Robert W., Tancin, Charlotte A. & Bridson, Gavin D.R.
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation: 1999
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 2285
ISBN: 0 913196 67 3
Condition: As new
No jacket, but has protective polyester wrapper. This index accounts for over 30,700 occurrences of more than 13,000 different formal names of plant and animal taxa that appear in the original editions of the 186 dissertations defended by students of Carl Linnaeus (from Introduction). The work is also invaluable in helping to disentangle the various collected editions of these theses, those edited by Linnaeus himself being known as Amoenitates Academiae. Frontispiece shows the Jaquemot engraving of Linnaeus; three thesis illustrations are reproduced, of Splachnum, a serpent's skull, and a bree... View more info
