The Flora Graeca Story. 1998. 16 coloured plates. Many black & white figures. XXVII, 327 p. 4to. Cloth.

The remarkable story of this great book is based on original diaries, letters, drawings, and specimens; it is also about the beauty of the Mediterranean world and the inner circle of English science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The account is a significant addition to the history of the scientific exploration of the Levant,and above all, it is a tribute to Ferdinand Bauer, one of the most accomplished illustrators of natural history, and to John Hawkins, an almost unknown amateur geologist and collector of antiquities. it is also another monument to John Sibthorp, the Sheridan Professor of Botany at Oxford, who died as a result of his exertions collecting the materialsfor FLORA GRAEECA.