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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 #:
  188
• Lot Description:
  Sturt, Charles. Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the years
  1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831, with Observations on the Soil, Climate and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales… Second Edition. Two volumes, octavo, with 13 plates (four handcoloured), a chart and a large folding map, original cloth worn and with one cover detached. London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1834. Presentation copy of the second edition (unaltered from the first of the previous year).
• Notes:
  Presentation copies of any edition of this book are very rare. This was Sturt’s full narrative of his two crucial expeditions into the interior, an account of over 4000 miles of exploration carried out in four years. Although the news of Sturt’s extensive discoveries had reached Britain within months of his return, it was this handsome two-volume account that was most responsible for rekindling the subdued interest in Australian discovery and geography. Sturt’s journal was the first full-scale publication of an Australian explorer’s journal since the publication of Oxley’s book thirteen years before. It was a huge success, with a second edition being called for the following year. Among all the explorers of the heroic age of the 1830s and 1840s only the journals of Sturt and Mitchell went to a second edition. Ferguson, 1853; Richards, 89; Wantrup, 118b.
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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