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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 #:
  151
• Lot Description:
  Jukes, Joseph Beete. Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly
  commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842 – 1846: together with an excursion into the Interior of the Eastern Part of Java. Two volumes, octavo, with a chart and a map, and 19 plates by Harden S. Melville, modern morocco. London, T. & W. Boone, 1847.
• Notes:
  First edition of the official account of the voyage of Captain Francis Blackwood in H.M.S. Fly. Blackwood was commissioned to make a detailed scientific survey of the north-east coast of Australia, with particular attention to the Great Barrier Reef. Attached to the expedition were the marine geologist Joseph Beete Jukes, the zoologist John Macgillivray, and the artist Harden Melville. From 1842 to 1846 they made a careful survey of the coast between Sandy Cape and Torres Strait, and explored the southern coasts of New Guinea, discovering most notably the Fly River. The scientific achievements were also considerable. Joseph Beete Jukes, the chronicler of the expedition, is “also remembered for his significant contribution to the proper scientific understanding of the Great Barrier Reef... [which was] charted for the first time in detail. His work on the natural history of the reef is considered a classic, strongly supporting Charles Darwin’s theory on the formation of coral reefs...” (Wantrup). Michael Richards has pointed to Jukes’s numinous experience on the Great Barrier Reef, when one day in 1843, having first regarded it as a navigational hazard and a scientific curiosity, he became aware of it as “a scene of the rarest beauty, [that] left nothing to be desired by the eye, either in elegance of form, or brilliancy and harmony of colouring”. Davidson, pp. 129 – 130; Ferguson, 4549; Hill 2, 901; Ingleton, pp. 61-8; Richards, 119; Wantrup, 92a.
• Estimate:
  A$1,400 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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