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Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer

Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)

Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as the greatest natural history painter of all time. This fascinating new study of Bauer’s work includes reproductions of never-before-published works from collections in Europe and Australia. Written by one of the world’s foremost botanical scholars, Painting by Numbers reveals Bauer’s innovative colour-coding technique for the first time.

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