Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

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Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney's Finest Natural...

Vanessa Finney

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences

Hardback

With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science... [more]

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Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and...

James Taylor

Painting & paintings; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Botanical art; Landscape art & architecture; History; Maritime history

Hardback

For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific... [more]

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The Florilegium Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney celebrating 200 years: Plants...

Colleen Morris and Louisa Murray

Painting & paintings; Botanical art; Illustration; Mathematics & Sciences; Biology, life sciences; Botany & plant sciences

Paperback

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed... [more]

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Rose

Catherine Horwood

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Gardening; Gardening: plants; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Hardback

With vibrant illustrations and tales of medieval best-sellers, nurserymen's rivalries and changing tastes in the flower bed,... [more]

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The Book of the Horse: Horses in Art

Hyland Angus, Caroline Roberts

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

Horses have been the inspiration for hundreds of works of art over the centuries. This book celebrates the horse in all its... [more]

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The Pebbles on the Beach

Clarence Ellis

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; Wildlife: general interest; Rocks, minerals & fossils; Travel & holiday guides; Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA)

Paperback

Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating.<br... [more]

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Marianne North: The Kew Collection

RBG Kew

Art & Architecture; Botanical art; The natural world, country life & pets

Hardback

Marianne North was a remarkable Victorian traveller and painter, who traversed the globe recording the world's flora with... [more]

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The Hermitage Cats

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

Lives of cats and men intertwined long ago. People worshiped cats like gods, full of superstition they were afraid of luminous... [more]

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Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany

Edmee Cudmore, Diana Hill

Botanical art; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Mathematics & Sciences; Botany & plant sciences

Paperback

William Guilfoyle, credited as the architect of Melbourne's Royal Botanic gardens, was an eminent landscape designer, botanist... [more]

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Botanical Art: From Renaissance Herbaria to the 19th Century

Andrea Accorsi, Giuseppe Brillante, Elena Percivaldi

Art & Architecture; Botanical art

Hardback

Plants and flowers have always captured man's imagination, with their delicate harmonies and the perfection of their symmetrical... [more]

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Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer

Walter Chandoha

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Cats as pets

Hardback

Suitable for younger audiences, this book offers insight into the career of a successful commercial photographer Walter Chandoha... [more]

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The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History

Mike Unwin, David Tipling

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Photographs: collections; Mathematics & Sciences; Birds (ornithology); Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

Hardback

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence... [more]

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Botanical Art with Scientific Illustration

Sarah Jane Humphrey

Art & Architecture; Botanical art; Painting & art manuals

Paperback

Botanical and scientific illustration share many common themes - the meticulous observation, the crucial composition, the... [more]

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Botanical Painting with the Society of Botanical Artists: Comprehensive...

Margaret Stevens, Society of Botanical Artists

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Painting & art manuals

Hardback

An illustrated, comprehensive guide to botanical painting written by the Society of Botanical Artists. [more]

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Animal: Exploring the Zoological World

Phaidon Editors, James Hanken

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; Wildlife: general interest

Hardback

Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every... [more]

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Unnatural Selection

Katrina van Grouw

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; Taxonomy & systematics; Evolution; Wildlife: general interest

Hardback

A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breeding Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated... [more]

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Wild Land: A Journey into the Earth's Last Wilds

Peter Pickford, Beverly Pickford

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Photographs: collections; Travel & holiday

Hardback

Wild Land is an epic and unprecedented portrait of some of the most untouched parts of our planet, and a timely message highlighting... [more]

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Rainbows: Nature and Culture

Daniel MacCannell

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Weather

Paperback

Rainbow: Nature and Culture describes what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding... [more]

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Paul Nash: Masterpieces of Art

Michael Kerrigan

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

Paul Nash, the British landscape and Surrealist painter, lived through both the First and Second World Wars. His depictions... [more]

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Africa

Michael Poliza

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Travel & holiday

Paperback

The first volume by the acclaimed landscape and wildlife photographer in our affordable gift book series. Featuring Michael... [more]

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i

Theresa Papanikolas

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Biography: arts & entertainment

Hardback

This book explores Georgia O'Keeffe's love for Hawai'i through more than 15 paintings inspired by the beautiful landscape.... [more]

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Where Corals Lie: A Natural and Cultural History

J.M. Shick

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; The natural world, country life & pets

Hardback

This book uniquely treats the many manifestations of corals in biology and geology; how diverse corals came to figure in art,... [more]

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Sunflowers

Stephen A. Harris

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Gardening; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Hardback

Sunflowers unravels the interplay between the biology of sunflowers and human cultures over the last 6,000 years. It explores... [more]

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Palm

Fred Gray

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Gardening; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Hardback

In Palm Fred Gray portrays the cultural and historical significance of this iconic and controversial plant over thousands... [more]

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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words

Jeremy Mynott

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); History; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social & cultural history; Birds (ornithology)

Hardback

Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting,... [more]