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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 #:
  55
• Lot Description:
  Harrison, Cluse & Co. (publishers). The Naturalists’ Pocket Magazine; or Compleat Cabinet…
  of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature...containing elegant Coloured Prints of Birds, Fishes, Flowers, Insects, Quadrupeds, Shells and other natural productions, with descriptions. Six volumes, duodecimo, with in total 360 handcoloured engraved plates, a few plates foxed but overall fine and clean, bound in calf of the period, boards with decorative gilt rules, skilfully rebacked, spines gilt with double contrasting labels, an attractive set. London, Printed for Harrison, Cluse & Co., 1798 – 1800.
• Notes:
  A run of the first six volumes of this popular and now very rare publication. The ‘magazine’ was issued in parts over 1798 – 1800 and appears destined from the beginning to become rare. Issued without collective title-pages for each volume but with titles to the separate (probably) monthly parts. Perhaps owing to the somewhat miscellaneous subject matter issued in each part, the work survives today often as nonce thematic gatherings of plates and descriptions bound up in no apparent order by the earliest owners. The present set unusually comprises a run of the first six volumes (but lacks a seventh volume and the single part issued of an eighth and final volume). The editor’s preface to the first volume is intriguing: “By the favour of a few friends, long resident in distant countries, and particularly by the friendship of a gentleman who resided for many years in a highly respectable official capacity at the British settlement in New South Wales, we have not only been enabled to present the naturalist with several non-descript articles… but are qualified to promise, from the same source, a great variety of other productions, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms”. One suspects the “gentleman who resided… in a highly respectable official capacity” to have been surgeon-general John White. Not in Ferguson (although it should be, with some 37 Australian species illustrated and described).
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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