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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 #:
  83
• Lot Description:
  Tasman, Abel Janszoon. Heeres, Jean Ernst (editor and translator). Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his Discovery
  of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642…with documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644. Being Photo-lithographic Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague, with an English Translation and Facsimiles of Original Maps, to which are added Life and Labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman… Large folio, with five folding charts in endpocket, text maps and many plates and illustrations (some coloured), original publisher’s vellum-backed boards (these a little marked). Amsterdam, Muller, 1898.
• Notes:
  First edition: of unspecified limitation but possibly about 500 copies in total. This is the standard issue of the first complete edition of Tasman’s journal. Arnot, 12; Davidson, pp. 30-1; Ferguson, 16722; Hocken, p. 1; Robert, 414; Schilder, pp. 139 – 196
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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