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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 #:
  4
• Lot Description:
  Barrington, George. A Voyage to Botany Bay with a description of the Country, Manners..
  Customs, Religion, &c. of the Natives.To which is added His Life and Trial [as issued with] A Sequel to Barrington’s Voyage to New South Wales… Two volumes in one, duodecimo, with frontispiece and engraved title in the first work, uncut in original boards rebacked with new facsimile printed label, the first work with a few minor marginal defects and paper fault in F3, the second work lacking leaf G3. London, C. Lowndes and... H.D. Symonds, 1801.
• Notes:
  The complete ‘Barrington’ voyage account, published by a prominent London publisher of chapbooks and other cheaper books. Much news was coming back to England by various sources which added to the information provided by Hunter and Tench in 1793, but no new books had been published to satisfy the public demand that clearly still existed, particularly among the less well-to-do who could not afford the expensive journals of the First Fleet officers. Accordingly, Symonds used this scattered and often ephemeral material to compile this account of the voyage to Botany Bay and of eighteenth-century New South Wales which he published under Barrington’s profitable name. Consequently, the ‘Barrington’ account includes many details of the colony not elsewhere available and, perhaps more importantly, this text in its numerous versions became the predominant source of information about the settlement for the greater part of the British public. The original ‘Barrington’ Voyage proved so popular that Symonds published the Sequel in 1800, and subsequently issued an edition of both works in uniform style, issued both separately or, as here, bound together in papered boards. The engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette in the first work are found only in this edition. Curiously, this engraving of convicts on the title-page appears to be the earliest unambiguous representation of transported convicts in a printed book, all earlier images having carefully avoided such depictions. Ferguson, 206 (misdated 1795) and 328; Garvey, AB21a; see Wantrup 25-6 (first editions).
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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