Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Daniel Charles Solander (1736-1782) Illustrations of Australian Plants Collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's Voyage around the World in H.M.S. Endeavour by ... Banks ... and Solander ... with Determinations by James Britten F.L.S. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1900-1905. 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, 2° (481 x 310mm). Letterpress title and part-titles to parts I and II, 'Instructions to the Binder' bound in after the title. 320 lithographic plates, 3 by Robert Morgan and the remainder taken from the 18th-century engraved plates after the drawings of Thomas Burgis, John Cleveley junior, James Miller John Frederick Miller Frederick Polydore Nodder and Sydney Parkinson 3 folding lithographic maps of the East Australian coast and New Zealand by Hazell, Watson and Viney after Cook, the maps of the East Australian coast with inset maps of the coast after surveys to 1890. (Very light browning and marginal darkening at the fore-edge affecting some plates, a few plates with unobtrusive, short, clean, marginal tears, one folding map very lightly worn on folds). Later maroon half crushed morocco gilt, the spines gilt and titled in compartments, top edges gilt. Provenance : 'Dr Ian Ferguson Cardiff 1947' (pencil inscriptions on flyleaves). A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE FIRST REPRESENTATIONS OF AUSTRALASIAN PLANTS' ( Great Flower Books ), recording the discoveries of a voyage during which 'over 800 previously unknown specimens were collected' ( DSB I, p.434). The publication of the botanical findings of Cook's circumnavigation was a extended process, delayed for over 130 years. Manuscript descriptions had been prepared by Linnaeus' pupil Daniel Solander, the accompanying drawings and sketches by Sydney Parkinson had been supplemented with finished drawings by other artists, and the engraving of the plates had been commenced under Banks' supervision shortly after the voyage, continuing until 1782. In the Introduction, Britten attributes the non-appearance of the work to Banks' other commitments, quoting Sir J.E. Smith's comment on Banks' role in the book's production, that 'this lasting monument of botanical fame [...] was sacrificed to the duties incumbent, for almost half a century, on the active and truly efficient President of the Royal Society', and to Solander's death in 1782, adding that Smith held 'the interruption caused by other avocations, the dissipation of London society, to which so agreeable a companion was always acceptable, and the indolence induced by a sedentary and luxurious life' responsible for Solander's failure to pursue the project to completion. Arnold Arboretum p.57; Beddie 934; BM(NH) VI p.135; Great Flower Books (1990) p.71; Hocken p.447; Nissen BBI 74; Stafleu and Cowan 295. (2)
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Daniel Charles Solander (1736-1782) Illustrations of Australian Plants Collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's Voyage around the World in H.M.S. Endeavour by ... Banks ... and Solander ... with Determinations by James Britten F.L.S. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1900-1905. 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, 2° (481 x 310mm). Letterpress title and part-titles to parts I and II, 'Instructions to the Binder' bound in after the title. 320 lithographic plates, 3 by Robert Morgan and the remainder taken from the 18th-century engraved plates after the drawings of Thomas Burgis, John Cleveley junior, James Miller John Frederick Miller Frederick Polydore Nodder and Sydney Parkinson 3 folding lithographic maps of the East Australian coast and New Zealand by Hazell, Watson and Viney after Cook, the maps of the East Australian coast with inset maps of the coast after surveys to 1890. (Very light browning and marginal darkening at the fore-edge affecting some plates, a few plates with unobtrusive, short, clean, marginal tears, one folding map very lightly worn on folds). Later maroon half crushed morocco gilt, the spines gilt and titled in compartments, top edges gilt. Provenance : 'Dr Ian Ferguson Cardiff 1947' (pencil inscriptions on flyleaves). A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE FIRST REPRESENTATIONS OF AUSTRALASIAN PLANTS' ( Great Flower Books ), recording the discoveries of a voyage during which 'over 800 previously unknown specimens were collected' ( DSB I, p.434). The publication of the botanical findings of Cook's circumnavigation was a extended process, delayed for over 130 years. Manuscript descriptions had been prepared by Linnaeus' pupil Daniel Solander, the accompanying drawings and sketches by Sydney Parkinson had been supplemented with finished drawings by other artists, and the engraving of the plates had been commenced under Banks' supervision shortly after the voyage, continuing until 1782. In the Introduction, Britten attributes the non-appearance of the work to Banks' other commitments, quoting Sir J.E. Smith's comment on Banks' role in the book's production, that 'this lasting monument of botanical fame [...] was sacrificed to the duties incumbent, for almost half a century, on the active and truly efficient President of the Royal Society', and to Solander's death in 1782, adding that Smith held 'the interruption caused by other avocations, the dissipation of London society, to which so agreeable a companion was always acceptable, and the indolence induced by a sedentary and luxurious life' responsible for Solander's failure to pursue the project to completion. Arnold Arboretum p.57; Beddie 934; BM(NH) VI p.135; Great Flower Books (1990) p.71; Hocken p.447; Nissen BBI 74; Stafleu and Cowan 295. (2)
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