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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 #:
  95
• Lot Description:
  Angas, George French. South Australia Illustrated
  Imperial folio, with handcoloured pictorial title-page and 60 handcoloured plates, a fine clean copy, bound in modern half morocco. London, Thomas M’Lean, 1847.
• Notes:
  First edition: generally considered Angas’s greatest achievement. George French Angas, son of G.F. Angas, banker and promoter of South Australia, had already published one illustrated work, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841, when he sailed for South Australia in 1843 on one of his father’s vessels. In the field of the Australian illustrated book Angas was to dominate the closing years of the 1840s as Prout had dominated the first half of the decade. Angas spent the next two years travelling and sketching extensively in South Australia and New Zealand, holding an exhibition in Adelaide in June 1845 and another in Sydney in July. Returning to England in 1846 to publish two important lithographed collections of views based on his South Australian and New Zealand sketches, he held a further highly acclaimed exhibition of his South Australian and New Zealand work at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The success of these two publications assured, Angas travelled to the Cape in December 1846, returning to publish his third great folio, The Kaffirs Illustrated, in 1849. These three great folios of 1846-9 are considered “amongst the most important of the illustrated travel books of their period” (Tooley). South Australia Illustrated is Angas’s most sophisticated and most accomplished work, with “his views of towns and scenery, of the Aborigines and of the flora and fauna offer[ing] an outstanding – if romantic – interpretation of the Australian landscape… It must be considered one of the fundamental works in any collection of Australian plate books” (Wantrup). Abbey, 577; Ferguson, 4458; Kerr, p. 19 – 21; Richards, 286; Tooley English Books, 62; Wantrup, 237.
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 14,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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