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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 #:
  174
• Lot Description:
  Oxley, John. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order
  of the British Government in the Years 1817-18. By John Oxley, Surveyor General of the Territory and Lieutenant of the Royal Navy. With Maps and Views of the Interior, or newly discovered country. Quarto, one folding engraved plate, five aquatint plates (two handcoloured), three folding charts, and two folding tables (the second with neat paper repairs at the fold), small corner excised from title-leaf, half calf of the period rebacked retaining the original spine. London, John Murray, 1820.
• Notes:
  First edition of the first published explorer’s journal, Oxley’s narrative of two major expeditions, the foundation work of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales. As a consequence of his experience on his two expeditions to trace the Lachlan and the Macquarie rivers, Oxley became convinced that the inland rivers drained into an inland lake or sea. This mythical inland sea was Oxley’s lasting contribution to the continuing geographical speculation about the inland of Australia that would hold public attention over several decades until finally disproved by Sturt. Among Oxley’s notable discoveries were the Liverpool Plains, the Warrumbungles, the Peel River, and the rich pastures of the New England tableland, the Hastings River, and the fine harbour of Port Macquarie. This official narrative of Oxley’s two expeditions was published in an edition of 500 copies. “Undoubtedly the chief book-making achievement of the Macquarie period” (Richards), it includes among its illustrations a fine hand-coloured aquatint portrait of an Aboriginal chief by John William Lewin – one of his few known Aboriginal subjects – as well as an evocative series of aquatint landscape views drawn by Major James Taylor from sketches by George William Evans, uniting in one book the work of three of the most substantial artists of the Macquarie era. Abbey, 568; Clancy, 9.20; Ferguson, 796; Perry and Prescott, 1820.03-05; Richards, 82; Wantrup, 107.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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