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Rowan, Mrs (Ellis)

A Flower-Hunter in Queensland & New Zealand

1898

195.52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1898
Place of printing
London. John Murray
Author
Rowan, Mrs (Ellis)
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Pacific & Australia Art
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [21 x 14 cm]; xv, 272 pp, frontis, double page colored chromolithograph of the Queensland flowering cotton tree, 15 other plates, one illus, folding colored map. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt lettering, some light cover staining, slight foxing on some leaves, interior is clean and fine, very good sound cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Rowan was both a fine botanical and wildlife artist and an explorer, acclaimed internationally for her wildflower paintings. "Flower Hunter is a book of travel and adventure, the type of book then fashionable, because the world knew less of its far places than it does today. . . Ellis knew how to hold her audience, her breathless adventures are tinged with fantasy. . ." (Hazzard in Australia's Brilliant Daughter). This is Rowan's only book on her travels, based on two journeys to Queensland in northern Australia and to New Zealand. Most of the plates in the book are from her paintings.