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The Orchid Paintings of Franz Bauer.Joyce Stewart & William T. Stearn. Franz Bauer (1758 1840) is widely regarded as the greatest of all botanical artists. He was born in Austria and worked for fifty years at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Here are sixty three fine full page reproductions of almost all of his completed orchid paintings that exemplify is artistic skill. The orchids are European species as well as introductions from North America, Australia and the Tropics. There is

With slipcase

Colour photographs and a comprehensive index of plant names

He was to spend much time in the company of Maori and became a fluent speaker of the language and a translator of religious texts into that language

First published in 2012 this is the latest revised edition

The writing is authoritative and engaging and the work features over 1000 individual public and private gardens from all over the globe

Ann Chapman

are described and illustrated and details of the toxins provided

An exceptional colour photographic guide to more than 2500 perennials both wild and cultivated

before the market quickly collapsed

In 1908 he published The Study of the Plant and its Applications in Art Industries

microscopic photographs and paintings by Nancy Adams

bulb trading fortunes were made and lost