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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 #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  Brosses, Charles de. Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes…
  Contenant ce que l’on sçait des moeurs & des productions des Contrées découvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Two volumes, quarto, with seven folding maps, with the additional asterisked leaves in volume one, stamps of the Public Library of New South Wales in the text (not the maps), bound in polished calf of the period, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, double contrasting labels, the copy of H.L. White with the Belltrees bookplate. Paris, Durand, 1756.
• Notes:
  First edition: “One of the outstanding works relating to the early history of Australasia” (Hill), and one of the most influential works dealing with early voyages to the Pacific. De Brosses’s two volumes played a fundamental role in the growing imperative in both Britain and France for greater engagement with the new lands discovered over the preceding century. De Brosses took care to include accounts of all southern voyages, from the Vespucci voyage of 1502 up to the end of the 1740s, including among others the voyages of Magellan, Drake, Quiros, Le Maire, and Tasman. The maps include those of Australia (“Carte réduite de l’Australie pour servir à la lecture de l’Histoire des Terres Australes…”, by Robert de Vaugondy), New Guinea, and north-eastern Australia. De Brosses, who profoundly influenced Bougainville, sought to encourage French discovery in the South Seas and also argued for programmatic colonisation. As a judge, he was acutely aware of the difficulties facing the poor in France and his proposals for settling the southern hemisphere are based on his concern for improving their condition. It is ironic that his proposals for colonisation were used ten years later, without acknowledgement, by John Callander as the basis for his influential Terra Australis Cognita. Captain James Cook had a copy of De Brosses with him on the Endeavour voyage. Arnot, 40; Clancy, 6.30; Davidson, pp. 34-5; Hill 2, 190; Hocken, p. 5; Kroepelien, 132; Landwehr, 270; Sabin, 8388; Tooley, 1002.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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