This beautiful collection of artworks from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries celebrates the work of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, two of the most accomplished natural history artists of all time. -- cont.

The art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer was praised by the celebrated poet and botanist Johann Goethe as the perfect expression of the aims of botanical illustration. This beatiful volume brings together their most significant work and tells the story of their contrasting lives. -- sol.

Introduction. -- Franz Bauer. -- Ferdinand Bauer.