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Richmond Victoria: Greenhouse Publications, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Conabere, Elizabeth. 192 pages. "ELIZABETH Conabere, an outspoken and occasionally outrageous, larger-than-life character who was also a nationally recognised botanical artist, writer and conservationist, has died at her home in Mansfield. She was 80.....In 1965, she was commissioned by the National Herbarium of Victoria to paint a series of 50 illustrations of alpine plants, and she exhibited widely with the Society of Wildlife Artists, of which she was a founding member. In 1968, publisher Thomas Nelson commissioned her to illustrate Wildflowers of South-Eastern Australia. The 384 paintings formed 80 plates, with the originals later acquired by the Victorian Government. They are in the La Trobe Library. The Victorian Lands Department commissioned her to paint a series that she titled Beautiful Noxious Weeds; it toured the state's regional galleries, and several of the paintings were reproduced…
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Wildflowers of south-eastern Australia Hardcover - 1987
by Garnet, J. Ros
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- Title Wildflowers of south-eastern Australia
- Author Garnet, J. Ros
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Thus
- Language ENG
- Publisher Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne
- Date 1987
- ISBN 9780864360922
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WILDFLOWERS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA
by Garnet, J. Ros.
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Richmond: Greenhouse Publications. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Thus. Hard Cover. 0864360924 . first published by thomas Nelson in 1974 this edition is illustrated with 80 full page colour paintings by Elizabeth Conabere, 192 pages, map, glossary, indexes to Genera & Species, Families, & Common names. A Beautiful Book.; 280 x 210mm .
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