The Art of Botanical Painting

Margaret Stevens

Introductory guide to the art of botanical illustration, published in association with the Society of Botanical Artists. For the first time, the Society has decided to put ....

The Book of Plants

The Complete Plates

Basilius Besler, Klaus Walter Littger and Werner Dressendorfer

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Book of Plants is in a class of its own when it comes to the variety ....

Botanical Illustration

Painting with Watercolours

Siriol Sherlock

Sherlock covers the various materials as well as the more traditional and more experimental techniques. The authoritative text is complemented by stunning ....

Botany Illustrated

Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families

J Glimn-Lacy and PB Kaufman

This easy-to-use book helps make learning botany fun and helps you acquire a wealth of fascinating information about plants. There are 130 pages with text, each facing 130 ....

The Botanical Illustration Course

With the Eden Project

R Martin and Meriel Thurstan

The Complete Course in Botanical Illustration is your personal guide to the study of botanical drawing and watercolour painting. Devised by an award-winning botanical ....

Botanical Riches

Stories of Botanical Exploration

Richard Aitken

The botanical riches of this book are twofold. This is firstly a book about plants themselves, and the story of their exploration, appreciation, introduction and ....

The British Museum Flowers

Marjorie Caygill

Flowers have been very lucky in the world of art. Those who have used them as inspiration for painting, drawing or decoration have clearly enjoyed their subject, thus ....

Catalogue of the 11th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and

Illustration

James J White and Lugene B Bruno

94 artworks with portraits, biographies and bibliographies of the 62 artists from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, ....

Drawn to the Forest

Robert Burton

Presents a collaboration between The Society of Wildlife Artists and the Forestry Commission with the aim of capturing and recording the essence of the forest for all to ....

Drawing and Painting Plants

Christina Brodie

This is a botanically based (as opposed to free-form drawing) practical manual on how to paint a vast range of plants in watercolour and other media. ....

The Flowering Amazon

Margaret Mee Paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Ruth Stiff

Outstanding watercolour illustrations by Margaret Mee, the pioneering female explorer and conservationist, who recorded the diverse beauty of the Amazonian rain forest and ....

Flowers of the Amazon Forests

The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee must rank as one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. She was an intrepid explorer of the Brazilian rainforest and an outstanding botanical ....

Florilegium Imperiale

Botanical Illustrations for Francis I. of Austria

H Walter Lack

Francis I of Austria, the last monarch to rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was obsessed with flowers. His imperial gardens, where he realized his passion for flowers, remain ....

The Great Fen

Artists for Nature in England

Chris Gerrard

Presents the work of 30 artists that shows a variety of styles and a variety of topics, ranging across field sketches of birds and other animals, detailed botanical and ....

Hawai'i's Pioneer Botanist Dr. William Hillebrand

His Life and Letters

Ursula H Meier

Dr. William Hillebrand (1849-1886) takes his place as one of the most influential foreigners in the Hawaiian Islands in this fascinating biography. Not only was Dr. ....

Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist

Wilfrid Blunt

New edition of Blunt's 1971 title. Celebrates the father of modern taxonomy, the man who invented the system of giving living organisms two Latin names. This volume charts the ....

Linnaeus - Genius of Uppsala

Helena Harnesk

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) lived and worked in Uppsala for the greater part of his life. This book, published on the occasion of the tercentenary of his birth, celebrates the ....

Nature Cure

Richard Mabey

Personal story of how Britain's foremost writer on natural history battled his way back from depression through the love of nature and the English countryside. ....

The Nature Diary of an Artist

Jennie Hale

Looks at the English countryside throughout the year through the sketchbooks of artist Jennie Hale. This book is filled with watercolour sketches of birds, insects, animal and ....

A Plant Hunter in Tibet

Frank Kingdon-Ward

Reprint of the account of a 1933 expedition to the south-eastern corner of Tibet. This book was originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1934. ....

Portfolio of a Botanical Artist

Pauline Dean

Pauline Dean is a well established RHS Gold Medal Botanical Artist, having had her work published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The New Plantsman, and included in the ....

Rica Erickson: A Naturalist's Life

R Erickson

Western Australia is rightly famous for its unique plants and animals, and many of those who have been drawn, inexorably, to study them have also been remarkable people. Among ....

Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo

HJ Nolte

This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the ....

Seeds of Blood and Beauty

Scottish Plant Explorers

Ann Lindsay

Traces the development of the great Scottish plant collectors who left their quiet native shores in search of exotic specimens, often encountering great danger along the ....