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A series of books that brings to light, often for the first time, the artistically and scientifically fascinating painting and drawing collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Each book introduces pioneer artists whose names have until now been undeservedly little known. With splendid colour plates and a readable and scholarly commentary, published titles include:
Arthur Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
John Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders
Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds William MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
Forthcoming titles:
Franz Bauer
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Arthur
Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
David Mabberley
Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September 2000
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 116 4, £29.95
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Birds:
The Art of Ornithology
Jonathan Elphick
Hardback, 280 x 265 mm
336 pp, October 2004
300 full colour illustrations
1 902686 39 X, £45.00
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Ferdinand
Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings
M J Norst
Paperback, 276 x 219 mm
120 pp, 1989
0 11 310037 X, £9.95
Available from The Stationery Office
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Ferdinand
Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
David Mabberley
Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September 1999
100 illustrations, 60 in colour 1 85894 087 7, £29.95
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Flora
Nick Knight and Sandy Knapp
Hardback, 364 x 234 mm
80 pp, 1997
46 plates of herbarium specimens with accompanying text
3 88814 238 5, £40.00
Available from Schirmer/Mosel
Paperback available in the US from Abrams or via Time Warner Trade Publishing at +1 800 759 0190
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Images
from Nature: Drawings and Paintings from the Library of
the Natural History Museum
Introduction by Christopher Mills
Paperback, 200 x 210 mm
112 pp, 1998
Illustrated in colour throughout
0 565 09029 1, £12.95
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John
Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders
Pamela Gilbert
Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, 1998 100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 064 8, £29.95
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John
Gould in Australia: Letters and Drawings
Ann Datta
Hardback, 284 x 209 mm
502 pp + xiv, 1997
0 522 84780 3, £55.00
Available from Gazelle Book Services Ltd
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Potted
Histories: An Artistic Voyage through Plant Exploration
Sandra Knapp
Hardback
336 pp, October 2003
1 902686 28 4, £45.00
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Sarah
Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds
Christine E Jackson
Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
160 pp, 1998 100 illustrations, 60 in colour 1 85894 063 X, £29.95
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The
Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse
Colin Cunningham
Paperback, 279 x 217 mm
192 pp, December 2000
0 47148949 2, £34.95
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William
MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
Robert Ralph
Hardback/Paperback,
290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September 1999
100
illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 088 5 (hb), £29.95
1
85894 100 8 (pb), £9.95
(normal
rrp £29.95)
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