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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 #:
  216
• Lot Description:
  Foster, John Fitzgerald Leslie. The New Colony of Victoria, formerly Port Phillip
  Together with some account of the other Australian Colonies. Octavo, original cloth. London, Trelawney Saunders, 1851.
• Notes:
  Only edition of a scarce and informative sketch of Port Phillip in the 1840s, a “well documented account of colonial achievements and prospects, intended as a handbook for prospective colonists and migration agents” (ADB). Foster was later to become one of the scapegoats for Eureka, having lost a political quarrel with (the execrable) Governor Hotham. It has particular historical interest since, having been published on the very eve of the gold rushes, it gives some idea of Victoria’s prospects had that unanticipated bonanza not occurred. Bagnall, 2020; Ferguson, 9701.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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