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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 #:
  97
• Lot Description:
  Atkinson, James. An Account of the State of Agriculture & Grazing in New South Wales
  including observations on the soils and general appearance of the country, and some of its most useful natural productions; with an account of the various methods of clearing and improving lands, breeding and grazing live stock, erecting buildings, the System of Employing Convicts, and the expense of Labour generally; the mode of applying for grants of land; with other information important to those who are about to emigrate to that Country; the result of several years’ residence and practical experience in those matters in the colony. Octavo, with half-title, terminal advertisement leaf, and errata slip, with the large folding coloured aquatint view of Port Jackson and Sydney (expertly laid down), three coloured aquatint plates and one plan, and folding handcoloured map of New South Wales by Joseph Cross (expertly laid down), the map with two inset maps and eleven engraved views and pictorial title, uncut in facsimile boards retaining the original printed and decorated front and back panels, the copy of Ivo Hammet with his characteristic monogram on the back endpaper. London, Cross, 1826.
• Notes:
  First edition: the rare first book on Australian agriculture. James Atkinson, a farmer from a farming family, served as a clerk in the naval service during the Napoleonic wars. Having become, like many others, an economic casualty of the peace, Atkinson determined to emigrate and raised enough capital to obtain a land grant in New South Wales, establishing his property in the Bong Bong district in 1821. While in England in 1824, Atkinson was assailed “with innumerable questions and enquiries respecting the present state of New South Wales, and especially of its Agriculture and Grazing”. This determined him to write an account of the pastoral and agricultural frontier in New South Wales, based on his extensive personal experience. His survey of the agricultural districts and the larger pastoral properties was also a very practical handbook of “rural and domestic economy”, which seems to have been of real assistance to the settlers with capital who had begun to arrive at Sydney through the early 1820s, as post-war prospects in Britain showed no signs of improving. When first published in 1826, the book was issued in two forms: “Price Seven Shillings, or, including a large Map and View of Sydney, Fourteen Shillings”. The present lot is the very rare issue with both view and map. Abbey, 572; Ferguson, 1054; Richards, 126.
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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