Flora Graeca Story Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant

Name: Flora Graeca Story Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant
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ISBN: 9780198548973

ISBN-10: 0198548974

ISBN-13: 9780198548973

Edition: 1998

Authors: H. W. Lack, David Mabberley

List price: $500.00

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This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorp and John Hawkins, accompanied by illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, travelled there. Bauer produced a class of paintings superior to anthing of their kind in existence then, and his work was to become one of the most valuable treasures of the University of Oxford. Based on the original diaries, letters, and specimens, this fine work is…

Book details

List price: $500.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Plates


List of Figures


List of Maps


Preliminary Notes


Dramatis Personae


A Short Levantine Glossary



Introduction



Complexities of discovery



Linnaean revolutions



Sibthorp: the early years



Bauer: the early years



Hawkins: the early years



Sibthorp: the first journey



Hawkins: the first journey



Sibthorp: the years between



Bauer's work for Sibthorp and Hawkins



Hawkins: the years between



Hawkins: the second journey



Sibthorp: the second journey



Sibthorp: the final months



The collections, drawings, and notes



Hawkins: the adventurer at home



The publication of the results



Epilogue



Biographical summary



Bauer's pencil drawings of plants



Bauer's water-colours of plants and their annotations



Bauer's water-colours of animals and their annotations



Bauer's patterns for the frontispieces to accompany the Flora Graeca



Bauer's views



The publication dates of the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca



The taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties among the vascular plants published: in the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca



The place-names used in the Prodromus



The frontispieces of the Flora Graeca



The engravings of the Flora Graeca



Walpole's Memoirs and Travels



Plants of horticultural and medicinal value with names based on Sibthorp's collections


Bibliography


Index