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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 #:
  52
• Lot Description:
  Grant, James. The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty’s Vessel The Lady Nelson
  of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales… Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of New South Wales; Observations on the Soil, Natural Productions, &c. not known or very slightly treated of by former Navigators; with his Voyage home in the Brig Anna Josepha round Cape Horn; and an Account of the Present State of Falkland Islands… Quarto, large folding plate of the sliding keels, folding chart handcoloured in outline, coloured plate of a cockatoo and four other plates (of five: lacking the plate of the Lady Nelson in the Thames), with the “List of the Encouragers” (often missing) but without the blank d4 as usual, damp mark on the uncoloured plates and on a few text leaves, bound in speckled calf of the period, the spine expertly relined. London, Printed by C. Rowarth for T. Egerton, 1803.
• Notes:
  First edition of one of the foundation works for Victoria, recording the discovery of the Victorian coast. In 1800 James Grant was instructed to sail the Lady Nelson from England to Sydney where it was intended he would hand her over to Matthew Flinders. The Lady Nelson had been designed by John Schank for survey work in shallow water. In the course of the voyage, Grant was instructed to search for the western passage into Bass Strait and traverse it from west to east. This he succeeded in doing, discovering the Victorian coastline west of Bass’s discoveries of 1797 and 1798. Subsequently, in 1801, Grant and Lieutenant-Governor William Paterson, explored the Hunter River in the Lady Nelson. As a result of Paterson’s report Governor King established the future city of Newcastle. Shortly after this trip Grant returned to England and command of the Lady Nelson passed to Lieutenant John Murray. Grant published this substantial voyage account upon his return. His handsome work is well illustrated with a large folding plate of sliding keels, a folding chart of Bass Strait (the first to record the newly discovered Victorian coast), as well as a finely handcoloured plate of the Fringe Crested Cockatoo. Clancy, 9.4; Ferguson, 375 (not noting the blank leaf d4); Hill 2, 718; Wantrup, 75.
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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