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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 #:
  311
• Lot Description:
  Troedel, Charles (publisher). The Melbourne Album Containing a Series of Views of Melbourne & Country Districts
  Respectfully dedicated to, and Patronized by His Excellency Sir Charles Darling, K.C.B. Published by B. Riemann 96, Bourke St., East, Melbourne Opposite Theatre Royal. Price £1.10s. [wrapper title]. Oblong folio, lithographed yellow-ochre titling-wrapper bound in as title-page as issued + 24 fine tinted lithographs, bound in publisher’s half red morocco and green cloth sides, with Detmold’s ticket retained, the front board lettered in gilt, rebacked, new pastedown endpapers. Melbourne, Charles Troedel, [1863-4].
• Notes:
  The complete series and very rare. The set of 24 lithographs that make up Troedel’s Melbourne Album of 1863-4 is the finest work of urban topography produced in Australia in the nineteenth century. Credit for the fine, large and delicately tinted lithographs of scenery in and around Melbourne must go to the publisher who planned and carried through the undertaking, rather than the several artists who worked on it. Charles Troedel had been brought to Melbourne from Germany in 1860 by an enterprising Melbourne printer, A.W. Shuhkrafft. After three years, Troedel set up business on his own – a business still carried on by Troedel’s descendants today. The Melbourne Album was his first venture in publishing. This splendid series of views was issued between August 1863 and July 1864, with the complete series issued in one volume later in 1864 and, more commonly, as ‘short sets’ comprising an ad hoc selection of twelve plates. The lithographs are the work of a number of artists – among them were such notables as Nicholas Chevalier, Eugen von Guérard, and Henry Gritten, but most plates are drawn and lithographed by the otherwise unknown but highly skilled François Cogné. The complete set is very rare, even the ‘short sets’ are only marginally less rare. Ferguson, 17322; Kerr, pp. 810-11; Wantrup, 262b (“the single most outstanding example of the urban topographical plate book produced in Australia”).
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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