Ferdinand Bauer: the nature of discovery.

London: Merrell Holberton, 1999.
Quarto, dustwrapper, 128 pp. colour plates, other illustrations.

The Bauer brothers, Ferdinand and Franz, are ranked among the greatest of botanical painters. Bauer accompanied Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia and it is for this he is most famous. His drawings of Australian plants and animals rank as some of the finest ever done.