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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 #:
  271
• Lot Description:
  de Mole, Frances, “Fanny”. Wild Flowers of South Australia. By F.E.D.
  Large quarto by dimensions, three leaves of preliminaries (handcoloured dedication leaf, gilt-printed title-leaf, preface leaf) + additional handcoloured lithographed pictorial title-page + 20 handcoloured lithographed plates, each within a decorative gilt-printed border, and each with a leaf of text printed in red within decorative gilt-printed borders + leaf of index following the last plate (i.e. in total 48 pages of text, most with versos blank, and 21 handcoloured lithographs including the additional handcoloured title), recased in the original extensively gilt blue cloth, new endpapers. Adelaide, [Printed in London by Paul Jerrard & Son for The Author], 1861. T
• Notes:
  he first work on the botany of South Australia, the most beautiful of all botanical books published in colonial Australia and one of the rarest, with fewer than 100 copies produced by the 26-year-old artist who had arrived in South Australia with her family in 1856. Family tradition records that after Fanny de Mole’s original drawings were sent to London to be lithographed by the firm of Paul Jerrard & Son, who specialised in such work, the finished plates were returned to Adelaide, where the artist and members of her family coloured them by hand, producing rich and beautifully finished images. Although this was her only published work, Fanny de Mole continued to be a regular exhibitor of botanical works with the South Australian Society of Arts until her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one in 1866. She had experienced severe ill-health since childhood and was almost a permanent invalid before arriving in South Australia. Ferguson, 9092 (poorly collated); Kerr, p. 204-5.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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