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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 #:
  168
• Lot Description:
  Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia
  with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix. Two volumes, octavo, with a large folding handcoloured map (detached and torn without loss), lithographed title-leaves, and 51 other plates and maps (some handcoloured, some folding), mainly after sketches by Mitchell, original cloth, fine, a few most apt stamps of the South Australian Company in the text. London, T. & W. Boone, 1838.
• Notes:
  First edition. The narrative of three expeditions of the greatest importance, both for the discoveries made and for the precision with which Mitchell was capable of surveying. The first expedition (1831-2) surveyed the area between the Castlereagh and the Gwydir Rivers, and the second (1835) set out to trace and chart sections of the Murray and Darling rivers. On his third and most important expedition (1836) Mitchell was instructed by Governor Bourke to complete the survey of the Darling but, instead, he followed that river upstream for only a short distance, turning back to explore what appeared to be more fertile lands south of the Murray. Retracing the Murray to its junction with the Loddon River, he turned south into the undiscovered lands of western Victoria, naming this new land of unvarying richness ‘Australia Felix’. It is upon the outstanding results of his third expedition that Mitchell’s reputation as an explorer rests. The discoveries of Mitchell and Sturt in the south-east brought about a heightened level of interest in Australia, which had waned during the late 1820s and early 1830s. Billot, 129; Ferguson, 2553; Wantrup, 124a.
• Estimate:
  A$800 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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