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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 #:
  265
• Lot Description:
  Barratt, Thomas J. Voyage Journal of Thomas J. Barratt aboard the Parramatta (and subsequent vessels)
  on a journey from London to Sydney, Melbourne, and Dunedin, and return, between September 1872 and May 1873. Ledger folio, neat manuscript on around 150 pages, occasional drawings (some tipped-in), illustrated with twenty-nine mounted photographs (the first four full-page), green half morocco of the period, Barratt’s pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown and his shelf-mark label on the back pastedown. London, At Sea, Sydney, Melbourne, and Dunedin, 1872-3.
• Notes:
  A fascinating journal by an intelligent and well-informed traveller. Travelling with another – his wife presumably – Barratt maintained this journal in the form of long letters to an English acquaintance (always addressed as “Dear Sir”). The journal consists of copies of these letters and is illustrated by the writer’s own drawings and by photographs pasted in. The first letter explains his procedure: “I have proposed to myself the pleasant task of writing you a series of letters during our journey… begging however that you will, after perusal, send them to the London Office to be re-copied on stout paper verbatim & placed in such a cover as will preserve them for the purpose of being in turn read by any friends who may desire to see them.” Barratt was evidently a prosperous and well-connected man of business – important enough to be invited to the Banquet at the Sydney Exchange to celebrate the opening of telegraphic communication between England and Australia, Sir Hecules Robinson in the Chair (programme in gilt and colour tipped-in). The photographs include Aboriginal portraits (eleven in total) and Melbourne street scenes, as well as a few Maori and Fijian portraits. Bound in or loosely inserted, are three manuscript shipboard entertainment programs, an 1872 facsimile copy of Fawkner’s Melbourne Advertiser, given to Barratt by Mr. John Hood, a “well-known retail druggist in Elizabeth Street Melbourne”, menu celebrating the opening of telegraphic communication between England and Australia, November 15, 1872 (lithographed by S.T. Leigh, Sydney), and a few similar items. Apart from these contemporaneous souvenirs, Barratt has also bound in a copy of the shipboard journal, The Royal Charter Gazette No. 4. Saturday March 15, 1856 (two conjugate leaves, small quarto, printed by George van Treight, No. 6 Hotham Square, Melbourne, March 15, 1856). The journal provides a wealth of material, rich with the observations of an intelligent traveller.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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