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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 #:
  6
• 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, Parramatta, 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. By George Barrington; Superintendant of the Convicts. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. Two volumes, octavo, engraved titles with coloured vignette, folding map, portrait and 25 coloured plates (one a little stained), full-page wood-engraved view in the text, bound in tree calf of the period (joints repaired). London, Printed for M. Jones, 1810.
• Notes:
  Second, first collected (and expanded), edition of perhaps the best known of all ‘Barrington’ pieces. This edition of the History includes a supplement “bringing down the History of the Settlement to the present Period of 1811” (Preface). Ferguson 486 and 487.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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