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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 #:
  30
• Lot Description:
  Webber, John. Views in the South Seas
  from drawings by the late James Webber, draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780. With letter-press, descriptive of the various scenery, &c... The drawings are in the possession of the Board of Admiralty. Folio, title-page and 16 handcoloured aquatint plates with 15 leaves of descriptive text (one describing two plates), marbled boards of the period, sympathetically rebacked and recornered in calf, retaining the original endpapers. London, Published by Boydell and Co., 1808 [but later]. V
• Notes:
  ery scarce: the only colourplate book of Cook’s voyages. This famous book of Webber’s finely handcoloured aquatint views of romantic South-Sea scenes comprises sixteen views selected from the twenty views separately issued by Webber himself between 1787 and 1792 and forms their only collective publication. First published by John and Joseph Boydell in about 1809, the work was issued by them and their successors, Hurst and Robinson, well into the 1820s. Boydell’s edition of Webber’s views includes a descriptive text probably prepared by James Burney. They comprise mainly quotations from the official account of the third voyage. Webber’s beautiful series of views, with their highly-coloured, romantic depiction of the South-Sea paradise, is “the only colour plate book relating to Cook’s third voyage, and the last of the great Cook publications” (Ellis catalogue). Abbey, 595; Bagnall, 5882a; Beddie, 1872; Davidson, p. 67; Forbes, 397; Hill 2, 1837; Holmes, 79; Kroepelien, 1341; Tooley English Books, 501.
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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