Author:Bridson, Gavin D.R

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Printmaking in the service of botany

By: Bridson, Gavin D.R.

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh: 1986

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 6352

ISBN: 0 913196 49 5

Binding: Paper covers

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.
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Printmaking in the service of botany

By: Bridson, Gavin D.R.

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh: 1986

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 15799

ISBN: 0 913196 49 5

Binding: Paper covers

Condition: New

Index to scientific names of organisms cited in the Linnaean dissertations, together with a synoptic bibliography of the dissertations and a concordance for selected editions

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

Binding: Hard covers, no dust jacket

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...
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Author:Bridson, Gavin D.R

Printmaking in the service of botany

Printmaking in the service of botany

Index to scientific names of organisms cited in the Linnaean dissertations, together with a synoptic bibliography of the dissertations and a concordance for selected editions

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