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''Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae'' is a 19th Century publication by the Botanical Illustrator Ferdinand Bauer . Bauer was scientific illustrator on board the '' Investigator '' during Matthew Flinders ' exploration of Australia , and as such he worked closely with the expedition's naturalist, Robert Brown . When these men returned to England in 1805, they brought with them thousands of specimens and hundreds of sketches. Initially, they planned to publish a large-scale work, to be entitled ''Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae'', but this venture failed, and Brown decided to publish his scientific descriptions separately, in '' Transactions Of The Linnean Society Of London '', and later his own '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae Et Insulae Van Diemen ''. Bauer then undertook to publish a lesser work himself, with Brown providing text limited to a brief preface and some captioning. Working alone, Bauer made all the illustrations, engraved the printing plates and coloured the illustrations. He also wrote the Latin text, which consists only of a brief preface and plate captions. Three issues of ''Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae'' were published between 1806 and 1830. Publication then ceased, probably because the venture was a financial failure. It is estimated that less than fifty copies of the work were sold, and some of these were uncoloured. It is therefore now an extremely rare book. In 1997, a copy was sold at Christie's for $57,000. |
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