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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 #:
  206
• Lot Description:
  Brees, Samuel Charles. How to Farm and Settle in Australia
  Rural Calendar, and a Traveller’s Map of the Squatting Stations, Townships, & Diggings of Victoria. Beautifully Illustrated on Steel, with general observations, authentic account of the Gold Fields, etc. etc. By an Old Colonist. Duodecimo in sixes, with six steel-engraved plates, and a folding map (“The Traveller’s Map of Victoria (Australia) showing all the Roads, Rivers, Towns, Counties, Gold-Diggings, Sheep and Cattle Stations, &c. &c. &c.”), original blind-stamped red cloth, the short title in gilt on the front board within a decorative gilt floral frame, front board detached, otherwise an above average example. London, Ward and Lock, 1856.
• Notes:
  Very scarce. First edition of what is arguably the most attractive of all the goldfields guidebooks, certainly the best illustrated. Published anonymously by engineer and colonial artist Samuel Charles Brees, the work covers the full range of subjects of interest to the emigrant both on and off the goldfields. The book is illustrated by six fine steel-engraved plates after watercolour drawings by the author. Ferguson, 10584; Kerr, pp. 93-5.
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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