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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 #:
  226
• Lot Description:
  Gill, Samuel Thomas (loosely after). Paul Jerrard & Son (published by) for Messrs. Newbold & Co.
  Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery. Complete in Twelve Plates… [caption title]. Twelve handcoloured lithographs (complete), 170 x 260 mm (plate), with engraved caption titles and explanatory text, bound in rebacked old half calf and cloth boards (little stained), leather titling label on front board, new endpapers. London, Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co., n.d. but 1850s.
• Notes:
  A very rare complete series of handcoloured Australian goldfields lithographs, loosely after the illustrations of S.T. Gill. Only the Davidson set (lacking one plate) appears to have been sold publicly in the last few decades. The views are: No. 1. Sunday at the Diggings; No. 2. The Lost Bushman or the Unfortunate Digger that never Returned; No. 3. A New Rush; No. 4. A Concert on a New Rush, or Gold Diggings in Australia; No. 5. Bushrangers waiting for the Mails in New South Wales; No. 6. A Corrobory, or Native Dance [this trimmed and mounted, with the descriptive text but with the series title in good pen facsimile]; No. 7. A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial; No. 8. Christmas on the Diggings…; No. 9. Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them; No. 10. The Way Her Majesty’s Mails & the Public Protectors are Served in New South Wales; No. 11. The New Chum’s Arrival on a Gold Diggings; No. 12. Prospecting for Gold or Rewarded at Last. Edge-Partington, p. 16; Ferguson, 15738a.
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 18,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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