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Libros antiguos y modernos

Rowan, Mrs (Ellis)

A Flower-Hunter in Queensland & New Zealand

1898

218,08 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1898
Lugar de impresión
London. John Murray
Autor
Rowan, Mrs (Ellis)
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Pacific & Australia Art
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

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, small ink mark on top of spine, light foxing on some leaves, else very good. 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.