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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 #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  Gilbert, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton, in the year 1788, with views of the islands
  discovered. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq. Commander of the Charlotte. Quarto, with engraved title-page vignette, four large folding plates of coastal views, fine large copy, bound without the half-title and terminal advertisement leaf in half calf. London, J. Debrett, 1789.
• Notes:
  First edition of the first trading voyage from Australia. Debrett published Gilbert’s Voyage as a companion to his publication of Surgeon John White’s Journal and – very rarely – it is found bound up with it as its publisher had suggested. Gilbert was commander of a First Fleet convict transport, the Charlotte, who continued from New South Wales to Canton to pick up a cargo of tea on the return voyage to England. After a brief description of the colony – he was critical of the land around Botany Bay but more sanguine about prospects further north – Gilbert commences his journal with his departure from Port Jackson to Canton in May 1788. During the voyage to China a number of islands were discovered and named, most notably the Gilbert and Marshall islands that were named for Gilbert himself and Captain Marshall of the Scarborough, the Charlotte’s companion ship on the voyage. Gilbert’s has proved to be a rare book in recent years and although “the actual Australian interest of this volume is limited... it is an important and scarce work, particularly from the point of view of general Pacific discovery” (Davidson). It is also, of course, a desirable companion and complement to John White’s First Fleet account. Ferguson, 38; Hill 2, 702; Wantrup, 18.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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