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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 #:
  309
• Lot Description:
  Thomas, Edmund (illustrated by). Australian Album 1857
  Quarto, tinted lithographed title-page and nine tinted lithographs by Edmund Thomas, original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked in morocco, original silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Sydney, J.R. Clarke, [1856].
• Notes:
  First edition of the first music album published in New South Wales: very scarce. The eight pieces of music “are all new – all colonial... We can send the work home as a specimen of what we can do out here at Botany Bay as an index of our education, refinement, art-feeling” (Preface). The book is now valued as much for the justly celebrated lithographs by Edmund Thomas (1827-1867), an artist better known for his 1853-4 series of Melbourne views. Thomas’s elegant depictions of Sydney and environs here include views of the Botanical Gardens, Sydney Heads, Rose Bay, and Sydney from the North Shore. Ferguson, 6318.
• Estimate:
  A$600 - 900
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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