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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 #:
  110
• Lot Description:
  Dixon, James. Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales, and Van Dieman’s Land, in the Ship Skelton
  during the year 1820. With observations on the state of these colonies, and a variety of information, calculated to be useful to emigrants. By James Dixon, Commander of the Skelton. With an appendix, containing Governor M’Quarie’s Report regarding Van Diemen’s Land, Tables of the Population, List of Articles Suitable for Exportation, &c. &c. Duodecimo, complete with half-title and the rare frontispiece, without the advertisement leaves issued with some copies, uncut in later half calf, the copy of Frank Hobill Cole with bookplate. Edinburgh and London, John Anderson, Jun. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1822.
• Notes:
  A notable rarity: the frontispiece silhouette portrait of Cobawn Wogy that is present here is frequently missing – mysteriously so. This rare emigrant’s guide book to Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales was written by the captain of the ship Skelton, who visited New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in 1820. On his return Dixon published this narrative, which is one of the key books to document the colonies under Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The long appendix contains Macquarie’s report on Van Diemen’s Land. The frontispiece is based on a caricature of Cobawn Wogy, an Aboriginal ‘chief’ of Ashe Island, Hunter’s River, in New South Wales, painted by the convict artist Richard Browne. Ferguson, 858; Wantrup, 57.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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