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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 #:
  98
• Lot Description:
  Backhouse, James. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies
  Thick octavo, with 15 etchings (one folding) and three folding maps (“Tasmania or Van Diemen’s Land”, “New South Wales”, “The World on Mercator’s Projection”), original cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; and York, John L. Linney, 1843.
• Notes:
  Only edition: inscribed presentation copy from the author, with an 1836 a.l.s. from the author to Charles Hatchell in its original envelope loosely inserted. An important work, this is an essential source for the period with detailed and carefully observed information on the Aborigines, convicts, social conditions, botany and much else. The fine etched plates after Backhouse’s own drawings include the famous and frequently reproduced large folding etching of a convict chain gang – one of the few surviving illustrations. An itinerant Quaker missionary, Backhouse arrived in Australia in 1832, where he and his fellow missionary, George Washington Walker, spent six years travelling throughout the settled districts of Tasmania, New South Wales (including the penal settlements of Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay, of which this is one of the very earliest detailed descriptions), Port Phillip, South Australia and West Australia. This book is an outstanding record of those travels and an invaluable record of life in the frontier colonies. Ferguson, 3558; Richards, 64.
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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