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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 #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Callander, John. A Collection of Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere… Two volumes
  octavo, pp. 692 and pp. [ii], 746 (last blank), tree calf of the period, rebacked with double contrasting spine labels, added to this copy is a “Chart of New Holland, with the adjacent Countries and New Discov’d Islands” with an inset map of “Botany Bay on the eastern Coast of New Holland and the adjacent Harbours” extracted from the Universal Magazine of March 1787. London, Printed for the Editor and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1788.
• Notes:
  A very rare version of Callander’s Terra Australis Cognita, first issued as three volumes 1766-8. Callander’s work, based on the 1756 French collection of De Brosses, contains in this two-volume form a total of forty-one narratives, some in English for the first time, including the voyages of Hawkins, Quiros, Spilbergen, Le Maire and Schouten, Pelsaert, Tasman, Dampier, Shelvocke, Anson, etc. The final section of the second volume here is Callander’s essay, “Advantages from the forming of Colonies in the Terra Australis”, first published in 1768. This has been described as “the fundamental proposal for the first European settlement of the Southern Continent”. It is surely no coincidence that this shortened reissue of the original sheets, comprising the voyages of most relevance to Australasia and the sub-Antarctic regions, was published in the year of first settlement at Sydney Cove when public interest in New South Wales was at its height. Almost certainly the publisher was Callander himself (“The Editor”), who would of course have had possession of whatever remained of the sheets of his 1768 volumes. Until Renard’s careful description in 1994 there was no adequate account of this rare issue: “the work consists of the remaining sheets of Callander’s Terra Australis Incognita, Volumes II and III… The original preliminaries and the two maps (by then well out of date) were omitted and a new title-page and last leaf for each volume printed. In addition, two small erasures were made to the first leaf in each volume so as to disguise the fact that these sheets were originally volumes II and III… The number of copies of this issue must have been small and it is rarely encountered” (Renard). While this second issue is recorded minimally by Sabin, and there is a copy in the British Library, the only earlier extended record is by Frank Maggs in 1956 (Voyages and Travels, IV, Part 7). It is not recorded by Ferguson, Davidson, Hill 2, Spence, Petherick, nor Kroepelien. Renard, 271; Sabin, 10053.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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