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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 #:
  88
• Lot Description:
  Tench, Watkin. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales
  including an accurate description of the Situation of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its natural productions... Quarto, with a folding “Map of the hitherto unexplored country contiguous to Port Jackson: laid down from actual survey”, bound in half calf and marbled boards of the period, later rebacked and recornered, Orams copy with bookplate. London, G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793.
• Notes:
  First edition of Captain Watkin Tench’s major work on New South Wales: an author’s presentation copy inscribed on the title-page “From the Author, to his Friend James Hodge Esq Plymouth 1793”. Presentation copies of any of the First Fleet journals are of the greatest rarity. Tench was the only First Fleet chronicler to publish more than one book (one cannot include the official publication of Phillip’s letters). He had returned to England with other marines in the Gorgon in 1792 and this second, grander, account of the colony was published over a year later, at the end of 1793. Tench “completes his account of the first years of the colony and brings his record of events down to the end of the first four years of settlement. The map and text give important and full details of the early expeditions of discovery to the south and to the west, including those which Tench led himself. As an accurate, well-written and acutely observed account of the earliest years of Australia’s colonisation, it is a most important addition to any collection of Australian books. It is rare despite the hundreds of copies that were originally printed…” (Wantrup). Clancy, 9.12; Davidson, p. 76; Ferguson, 171; Wantrup, 16.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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