Fascicle IX of the Florilegium

Item author: Sir Joseph Banks
Item date: 1982
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3,000
Item date acquired: 1982
Item institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands

One of the projected series of 34 fascicles. The 743 copper plates engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson of the plants collected by Banks on his voyage round the world 1768 - 1771 with Captain Cook. The plates, which are housed at British Library had never before been printed in colour

Item Provenance
Bought from the publisher, Editions Alecto