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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 #:
  94
• Lot Description:
  Angas, George French. Description of the Barossa Range and its Neighbourhood, in South Australia, By “Agricola.”
  Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot. Quarto, with one (of two) lithographed maps and six handcoloured lithographs, in the original printed wrappers (edges slightly chipped), preserved in a cloth box. London, Smith, Elder, 1849.
• Notes:
  One of the rarest and most beautiful of all Australian view books. Son of G.F. Angas, the banker and promoter of South Australia, George French Angas sailed for South Australia in 1843 on one of his father’s vessels. He spent two years travelling and sketching extensively in South Australia and New Zealand. He held an exhibition in Adelaide in June 1845 and another in Sydney in July. He returned to England in 1846 where he published two magnificent volumes of his views based on his South Australian and New Zealand sketches. In 1849 he published this further Australian volume, designed to promote South Australia. The text is signed pseudonymously ‘Agricola’ but was probably written by John Howard Angas, the artist’s brother. The plates were drawn on the stone by Angas himself, unlike his earlier works. “So much of Angas’s work was re-interpreted by English lithographers that this book is especially desirable since the plates provide a faithful expression of Angas’s artistic intentions and a more accurately observed representation of the Australian scenery” (Wantrup). At the risk of special pleading, it is possible that the second map may not have been issued with all copies. It is not recorded by Ferguson, and was not present in the Edge-Partington copy nor the Quentin Keynes copy (Christie, London, 2004). The second map, however, was present in the Crotty copy and the Davidson copy (sales in our rooms, respectively, 2004 and 2006). Ferguson, 4968 (calling for one map only); Wantrup, 238 (calling for two maps).
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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