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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 #:
  5
• Lot Description:
  Barrington, George. An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales. By George Barrington
  Superintendant of the Convicts. To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. [together with] The History of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Pamaratta [sic], Sydney, and all its Dependancies from the Original Discovery of the Island: with the Customs and Manners of the Natives; and an Account of the English Colony, from its Foundation, to the Present Time... Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. Two volumes, octavo, Voyage: pp. [viii] (“Preface”, “Introduction”, Two letters from Barrington), 472; History: pp. [iii - xlii] (“Contents”; lacks half-title), [2] (“List of Coloured Plates” – rarely found), [6] (“Dedication”, “Preface”, and “Introduction”), [7] - 506 (last blank), with handcoloured engraved titles, portrait frontispiece to the Voyage and handcoloured frontispiece to the History, a folding handcoloured map, and in total 23 handcoloured plates, bound in (little rubbed) red half morocco and marbled boards of the period, yellow edges, spine lettered and decorated direct in gilt. London, Printed for M. Jones, 1803 – 1802.
• Notes:
  First editions: perhaps the best known of all ‘Barrington’ pieces. This elaborate production was originally issued in parts over 1802-3 and subsequently sold bound up in volume form. “These two volumes have no real relationship with the earlier 1795 ‘Barrington’ Voyage apart from the unauthorised use of his [Barrington’s] name… In fact these volumes are largely extracted, more or less verbatim, from David Collins’s two-volume account, with the addition of some very crude coloured illustrations” (Wantrup, somewhat more contemptuously than he might have been – this ‘Barrington’ is, in fact, the earliest work with handcoloured topographical views of New South Wales). The History was first published in 1802 and was clearly such a success that Jones decided to prepare a ‘prequel’, describing the voyage from England to Botany Bay, for publication in 1803. Being initially published in parts, and that by a not notably fastidious publisher, these two Barrington volumes evidence much variation, especially as regards preliminary and terminal matter. Casey Wood, 222; Ferguson, 367 and 345; Wantrup, pp. 96-7.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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