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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  74
• Lot Description:
  Phillip, Governor Arthur. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay…
  with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. to which are added the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty-five Copper Plates, the Maps and Charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the Plans & Views drawn on the Spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall &c. Quarto, with the terminal advertisement leaf, with 54 engraved plates and charts, the 31 natural history plates as issued on laid paper and in fine original handcolouring + engraved portrait of Lieut. Watts (normally found only in the second edition but issued with a few copies of the first), bound in sprinkled calf of the period, rebacked retaining the original spine, gilt in compartments, contrasting label. London, John Stockdale, 1789.
• Notes:
  First edition of the ‘official’ account of the First Fleet: the rare deluxe handcoloured issue of the foundation book. Stockdale’s edition of Governor Arthur Phillip’s account of the voyage of the First Fleet comprises a full record of events both on land and on sea in the first months of the settlement from March 1787, just before the First Fleet sailed, up to September 1788. Based on Governor Phillip’s despatches and other official correspondence as well as the journals of other officers, the text records the early expeditions into the interior around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, and the earliest coastal voyages of discovery. Text and plates illustrate newly-discovered animal life, and among the charts and plans is the earliest plan of the settlement at Sydney Cove, showing what buildings and other progress had been made there by July, 1788. This was drawn in July 1788 by Lieutenant William Dawes and Captain John Hunter and was published by Stockdale on 7 July, 1789, over two weeks before the earliest separately-issued plan of the settlement published in London by R. Cribb on 24 July. Finally, although far from complete, an appendix lists the convicts embarked on the First Fleet. Phillip’s Voyage has always been considered a cornerstone of any collection of Australiana. Davidson considered that as “the authentic record of first settlement the work’s importance cannot be over-emphasised, and no collection can be complete without a copy”, while Wantrup confirmed that “as a detailed and officially sanctioned account of the new colony, the first edition of Stockdale’s Phillip is a key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books”. Stockdale published two issues of the book. The regular issue with uncoloured engraved plates printed on wove paper and this, rarely encountered, special deluxe issue with the engraved plates handcoloured and printed on laid paper. The present copy is a fine example of this deluxe handcoloured issue. Initially printed in parts, Stockdale’s Phillip is known to have various other points and variants. The present lot has the title-page in the first state, with the artist’s name on the vignette. Ayer/Zimmer, 491; Casey Wood, 518; Clancy, 9.9 and 9.10; Davidson, pp. 70-2; Ferguson, 47; Hill 2, 1347; Kroepelien, 1249; Nissen ZBI, 3158;. Wantrup, 5.
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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