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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 #:
  81
• Lot Description:
  Seriman, Zaccaria. Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre incognite Australi, ed ai regni delle Scimie
  e de’ Conicefali nuovamente tradotti da un manoscritto IngleseFour volumes, plates (many folding), fine copy in pale calf of the period, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, contrasting spine label. ‘Berna’ [i.e. Venice, Giovanni Battista Remondini], 1764.
• Notes:
  Rare Italian edition of Seriman’s account of the imaginary voyages of the very un-English-sounding English narrator, Enrico Wanton. Shipwrecked on the shores of a South Land, Wanton finds a society of civilised and cultured apes. Coming into favour with them, he is soon appointed a minister of state and begins a course of excessive revelry and indulgence, which is depicted in the delightful plates that “show Seriman’s Australia to be very much like a Renaissance Planet of the Apes” (Moors). Davidson, pp. 44-5; Gibson, 769; Gove, p. 314-6; Hill 2, 1553; Hordern House IV, 67; Mackaness, 8; Moors, 23 (da Sancha edition); White, p. 142-4, q.v. (edition D).
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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