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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 #:
  247
• Lot Description:
  Read, Charles Rudston. What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold Fields
  Octavo, frontispiece and three other fine coloured lithographed plates, and a large folding engraved map handcoloured in outline, with a vignette on the title-page and other illustrations in the text, original cloth. London, T. & W. Boone, 1853.
• Notes:
  First edition: with fine colour illustrations, all after sketches by the author. The earliest and one of the best of a mere handful of contemporary accounts by gold fields officials and a classic of gold rush literature. Read was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands at the Forest Creek diggings and Police Magistrate at Bendigo. Unlike most of his kind, he was a good official who maintained order and justice fairly and sympathetically. Abbey, 585; Ferguson, 14756.
• Estimate:
  A$300 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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