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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 #:
  135
• Lot Description:
  Grey, George. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia
  during the years 1837, 38, and 39. Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile Districts, with Observations on the moral and physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. Two volumes, octavo, with two large folding maps loose in an endpocket in volume one, complete with 22 plates (six coloured), and with required early issue advertisement leaves, library stamps, bound in more recent green morocco. London, T. & W. Boone, 1841.
• Notes:
  First edition of a classic Western Australian exploration account. In July 1837 Grey sailed for Australia on board the Beagle to explore the land in Australia’s north-west with a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. In the course of his two expeditions, both of which were undertaken in extreme hardship, Grey discovered and named the Glenelg River, the Macdonald Range, the Stephen Range, the Gairdner River, Mount Lyell, the Gascoyne River, the Murchison River and nine other rivers, the Lyell, Victoria and Gairdner Ranges, and many other features along the west coast. Grey’s expeditions and the associated coastal surveys of Wickham and Stokes in the Beagle, were a major advance in the discovery of the west and north-west parts of the Australian continent. Grey’s narrative includes scientific appendices by John Gould, John Edward Gray, and Adam White. The Aboriginal rock paintings found on the first expedition are illustrated on several plates. Bagnall, 2336; Ferguson, 3228; Richards, 97; Wantrup 131 (miscounting plates in the second volume).
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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