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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 #:
  153
• Lot Description:
  King, Phillip Parker. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia
  Performed between the years 1818 and 1822... With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to Hydrography and Natural History. In two volumes, illustrated by plates, charts, and wood-cuts. Two volumes, octavo, with thirteen plates and two folding charts, errata slip in each volume, a degree of light foxing and offsetting from the plates as often, bound with the half-titles in more recent calf, with the nicely associated stamps (cancelled) of the Admiralty Library. London, John Murray, 1827.
• Notes:
  First edition: Captain Phillip Parker King, Australian-born son of the third governor, Philip Gidley King, became the Navy’s leading hydrographer. His coastal voyages and Oxley’s expeditions inland were the great expansionary undertakings of the Macquarie era. Appointed in 1817 to complete Flinders’s interrupted survey and firmly to establish Great Britain’s claim to the north coast of Australia, King charted the greater part of the west, north and north-east coasts, and also carried out important surveys in the area of the Barrier Reef between 1817 and 1822. His hydrographical work is still the basis of many modern charts. This is the second issue with a cancel title-pages dated 1827 and the normal form in which the book is seen. Clancy, 9.6; Davidson, pp. 127-8; Ferguson, 1130; Hill 2, 927; Ingleton, pp. 38 – 48; Perry and Prescott, 1826.09-10 (maps); Wantrup, 84b and pp. 162-3.
• Estimate:
  A$1,800 - 2,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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