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James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice by James Prosek
RRP: $42.88$42.78Works by Prosek and others are juxtaposed with natural objects in an illuminating interrogation of the artificial boundaries we create between art and nature Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide... -
Paint Watercolor Flowers: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide by Birgit O'Connor
RRP: $37.72$26.78Featuring 8 beautiful watercolor flower demonstrations, Birgit O'Connor's lessons are perfect for the beginning watercolorist. She'll explain information critical to beginners such as value, shadow composition, creating shape, layering color, simplifying... -
Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible by Wolfgang Stuppy 9781906506421
RRP: $34.31$24.61Fruit. The word itself conjures up mouthwatering memories of crunchy apples, luscious strawberries, sweet bananas, succulent melons and juicy pineapples, to which we can add the splendid tropical fruits on our supermarket shelves. They are one of... -
Donna Dewberry's Essential Guide to Flower and Landscape Painting: 50 decorative and one-stroke painting projects by Donna Dewberry
RRP: $41.15$29.7450 of Donna's favorite projects in one gorgeous book! Donna Dewberry flowers are beautiful to behold, and they are beautifully simple to create. You can achieve the same loveliness using her easy-to-master One-Stroke painting techniques. Inside, you'll... -
From Another Kingdom: The Amazing World of Fungi by Max Coleman
RRP: $34.31$28.29From Another Kingdom: The Amazing World of Fungi introduces the fungi and their importance in sustaining all life on Earth. People have had intimate associations with fungi for millennia. Nevertheless, most of us are unaware how heavily we rely on fungi... -
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel by Lee Hendrix 9781606066584
RRP: $128.65$83.76Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of... -
Audubon's Aviary: the Original Watercolors for the Birds of America by Roberta Olson
RRP: $90.05$78.22A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic, but it has never been explored like this before. This important new volume presents all the dazzling watercolors that Audubon painted for... -
Recreating an Age of Reptiles by Mark P. Witton
RRP: $29.14$23.67Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? ... -
Animal Illustration: The Essential Reference by Carol Belanger Grafton 9780486799865
RRP: $36.00$23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486799865Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest by Tommy Kane
RRP: $60.02$51.13Tommy Kane brings together, for the first time, a collection of contemporary vegan artists whose works grapple with one of the biggest issues of our century and confront our conflicted relationship with animals. With diverse contributions, Vegan Art... -
Bird Skeletons: Copyright-Free Images for Artists & Designers by Kale James 9781925968064
RRP: $32.57$29.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925968064Author Kale JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Avenue House Press Pty LtdPublisher Avenue House Press Pty LtdWeight(grams)... -
Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art by Bartholomew F. Bland 9780943651453
RRP: $66.90$62.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Award for Excellence, Greater Hudson Heritage Network 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780943651453Author Bartholomew F. BlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint... -
Creating a Garden Retreat: An Artist's Guide to Planting an Outdoor Sanctuary by Virginia Johnson
RRP: $32.57$21.37A garden is more than the sum of its parts-a garden can be anything one wants it to be. What's important is that it have a heart. Through ethereal illustrations, textile designer and artist Virginia Johnson takes the reader on her own garden journey,... -
Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, A: Illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury by Caroline Ball
RRP: $25.73$19.88Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different... -
Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods: A Victorian Woman’s Illustrated Field Notes by M. F. Lewis 9781797227412
RRP: $30.86$21.18Venture into the woods alongside a pioneering female mycologist. This one-of-a-kind, keepsake volume celebrates the timeless fascination of fungi.Very little is known about M. F. Lewis-not even her first name. Mysterious, prolific, and deeply enamored... -
The Kew Gardens Botanical Artist: Learn to Draw and Paint Flowers in the Style of Pierre-Joseph Redouté by The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 9781789502299
RRP: $25.71$15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789502299Author The Royal Botanic Gardens KewFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Art Cat: Fine Felines of the Art World by Smith Street Books
RRP: $22.28$14.75From the time of the pharaohs to world-famous internet sensations, cats have inspired artists to strive to capture their lithe movements and cryptic personalities for as long as they've been our furry companions. This joyous collection celebrates... -
Birds: The Art of Ornithology (Pocket edition) by Jonathan Elphick 9780565095512
RRP: $25.71$16.81Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern... -
Insects and Flowers - The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian by David Brafman 9780892369294
RRP: $15.42$11.13Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail.Between 1699-1701, she travelled to... -
Green Florilegium by ,Hanne,Kolind Poulsen
RRP: $77.19$58.68Very little is known about The Green Florilegium. Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker and originates from the library at Gottorp Castle in Schleswig, on the border of Germany and Denmark. The... -
Art Dog: Clever Canines of the Art World by Smith Street Books
RRP: $22.28$14.75From millennia-old cave art to world-famous internet sensations, dogs have inspired artists to strive to capture their loyal personalities and antics for as long as they've been our furry friends. This joyous collection celebrates dogs in art,... -
Kew Pocketbooks: Honzo Zufu by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
RRP: $15.42$11.06This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Each book lavishly showcases choice examples from individual plant groups or collections, and in this pocketbook a selection of plants are... -
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin by Daniela Bleichmar
RRP: $72.90$72.87An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a... -
Majestic Animals by Igloo Books 9781837714667
RRP: $18.85$13.33Majestic Animals will take you on a journey of discovery across our planet, mixing journal entries, fun facts and information, plus scratch-art pages of Earth's most incredible animals and a fold-out Serengeti!Book InformationISBN 9781837714667Author... -
Botanical: Observing Beauty by Filipa Ramos 9782365680608
RRP: $66.90$41.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782365680608Author Filipa RamosFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Jbe BooksPublisher Jbe BooksWeight(grams) 216g -
Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hornstein 9780300253207
RRP: $102.92$98.03An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France In artistic traditions that stretch back to antiquity, lions have been associated with... -
Born in the Spring: A Collection of Spring Wildflowers by June Carver Roberts 9780821402269
RRP: $37.72$28.18A must for flower and art lovers, Born in the Spring is a unique collection of line drawings and magnificent watercolors of spring wildflowers. All of the drawings and paintings were done from living plants, in minute detail, with complete botanical... -
Middlewood Journal by Helen Correll 9781891885976
RRP: $25.71$23.89Setting out from her house, fondly named Middlewood, in the Piedmont of South Carolina, Helen Correll takes long, wandering walks along Meetinghouse Creek with her dogs to observe and draw the nature of her landscape. From her studio nestled in the... -
Champion Trees of Arkansas: An Artist's Journey by Linda Williams Palmer 9781682260128
RRP: $73.67$46.76In Champion Trees of Arkansas, Linda Williams Palmer explores the state's largest trees of their species, registered with the Arkansas Forestry Commission as "champions." Through her beautiful colored-pencil drawings, each magnificent tree is... -
The Sporting Art of C. D. Clarke by C. D. Clarke 9780811772440
RRP: $111.49$94.94C. D. Clarke says he was born to paint and fish and hunt, and he’s done just that over his lifetime, capturing memorable times on the water and in the field on canvas and finessing that passion and pastime into a laudable career.This magnificent book of... -
Flowers & Mushrooms by Toni Stooss
RRP: $68.53$64.74Flowers and mushrooms run the risk of being considered trivial subjects for contemporary art. However, in recent years they have experienced a revival as complex subjects as presented by contemporary artists, including Peter Fischli and David Weiss,... -
Philip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Alabamensis by Gary Mullen
RRP: $44.51$36.78Philip Henry Gosse's detailed watercolors of Alabama's native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the complete full-color illustrations from Gosse's Entomologia Alabamensis,... -
Frank Benson's Hunting & Fishing Art: Etchings & Drypoints by John R. Lewis
RRP: $132.08$113.48John Lewis has spent forty years assembling this rare collection of all fifty-five of Frank Benson’s etchings in the hunting and fishing genre. The strength and subtlety of the pieces show off Benson’s mastery of technique and artistry. Born in Salem,... -
James Prosek Ocean Fishes: Paintings of Saltwater Game Fish by James Prosek
RRP: $55.75$53.17The captivating watercolors of James Prosek, the artist the New York Times calls "the Audubon of the fishing world." In the tradition of his acclaimed Trout: An Illustrated History, renowned naturalist, artist, and fisherman James Prosek captures... -
Art and Animals by Giovanni Aloi
$185.00'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien... -
John Reeves: Pioneering Collector of Chinese Plants and Botanical Art by Kate Bailey 9781788840316
RRP: $60.04$40.19This is the story of the Reeves Collection of botanical paintings, the result of one man's single-minded dedication to commissioning pictures and gathering plants for the Horticultural Society of London. Reeves went to China in 1812 and immediately on... -
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship by Alice A. Kuzniar 9780226102702
RRP: $32.59$31.73An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia's Dog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and... -
Expeditions and Endeavours: Images of Nature by Andrea Hart 9780565094607
RRP: $22.28$14.75Expeditions and Endeavours is illustrated with over 100 paintings and drawings created on some of the most significant voyages of natural history discovery undertaken over the past 300 years. Andrea Hart and Paul Martyn Cooper explore how these... -
Drawing Wildlife by J.C. Amberlyn 9780823023790
$30.12Artists and naturalists will master their ability to render lifelike depictions of a wide range of wildlife in a variety of still and action poses in this unique instructional. Amberlyn begins by offering a discourse on animal anatomy, basic animal... -
Sketching & Illustrating Birds: Professional Drawing Class by Juan Varela Simo
RRP: $46.30$37.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764167911Author Juan Varela SimoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks