- Rudwick , M.J.S. 1976 . A visual language for geology . History of science , 14 : 149 – 195 .
- Audubon , J.J. 1972–73 . The Birds of America , Vol. 2 , London : Ariel Press . 40 plates. See also his Original water-colour paintings (2 vols., 1966, London); these are reduced in size to 34 × 27 cm, and are done directly from his pictures and not from the printed plates.
- Catesby , M. 1974 . The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands , Savannah, Georgia : Beehive Press . 50 plates.
- Lindley , J. Sertum orchidaceum and J. Bateman, Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala ([1974], Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; and New York, Johnson Reprint), 50 and 40 plates.
- Gould , J. 1972–76 . Birds of Australia , Vol. 8 , Melbourne : Landsdowne Press . 681 plates., See also A. McEvey, John Gould's contribution to British art (1973, Sydney); and C. E. Jackson. Bird illustrators (1975, London).
- Stearn , W.T. , ed. 1976 . The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer , London : Basilisk Press . 25 plates. Further sumptuous examples of the reproduction of manuscript and illustration are L. Baldner, Vogel-, Fisch-, und Thierbuch, 1666 (2 vols., 1973–74, stuttgart, Verlag Miller und Schindler), 108 plates, 30 × 19 cm, the first regional fauna of Europe; and W. Bligh, Log of H.M.S. Providence, 1791–1793 (1976, Guildford, Genesis Publications), 12 plates + 5 fold-out maps, 22 × 34 cm, describing the successful transport of bread-fruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies.
- Whitehead , P.J.P. and Edwards , P.I. 1974 . Chinese natural history drawings , London : British Museum (Natural History) . 20 plates.
- Campbell , B. 1976 . The bird paintings of Henry Jones , London : Folio Fine Editions with the Zoological Society . 24 plates.
- Hunt , P.F. 1973 . Orchidaceae , Edited by: Grierson , M. Bourton, Berkshire : The Bourton Press . 40 plates.
- Morris , F.T. 1973 . Birds of prey of Australia , Melbourne : Landsdowne Press . 24 plates.
- Curtis , W. 1967 . The endemic flora of Tasmania , Edited by: Stones , M. London : Ariel Press . in progress,
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