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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 #:
  19
• Lot Description:
  Clark, John Heaviside (after). Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales
  Quarto, with ten fine handcoloured aquatint plates, bound in later red half morocco and marbled boards. London, Edward Orme, 1813. F
• Notes:
  irst edition: an early state of this important Australian plate book; in those instances where a watermark is present it is dated 1811 as in the earliest issues. This important New South Wales supplement of ten handcoloured aquatint plates of Australian Aboriginal scenes with descriptive text was issued in 1813-4, both separately and with the large main work – Orme’s Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c., one of the most notable books from the golden age of the handcoloured illustrated book. The plates in the supplement represent in vivid style and delicate detail various aspects of Aboriginal life in the bush. Some of the plates show hunting scenes such as kangaroo hunting, fishing, bird hunting, and smoking out possums. Other plates represent aspects of tribal life such as a corroboree, trial by spear, a war party, and a night scene in a camp. The plates are justly celebrated and are without question the most attractive and sympathetic of the early European depictions of the Aboriginal inhabitants. The first edition of the New South Wales supplement is dated 1813, while the first edition of the main work was dated 1814. The 1814 edition was kept in print by Orme over the next few years, with a second edition in larger quarto format published in 1819. Ferguson, 551; Wantrup, 213a.
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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