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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 #:
  318
• Lot Description:
  Wills, William John. A Successful Exploration through the interior of Australia, From Melbourne to the Gulf
  of Carpentaria. From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills. Edited by his father, William Wills. Octavo, with half-title and inserted advertisements, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Wills, and a folding map, bound in modern half calf. London, Richard Bentley, 1863.
• Notes:
  First edition of what might, by default, be considered the ‘official’ account of the expedition, edited from his letters and journals by Wills’s father. “The largest, the most expensive and the worst led expedition yet seen in Australia, the Victorian Exploring Expedition became a symbol of intercolonial rivalry. There can be little doubt that the prime objective of the expedition when it set out in August 1860 was to beat Stuart’s South Australian expedition to the north coast at any cost... Bentley’s edition of Wills’s journals is the most extensive contemporary account of the expedition and must be considered essential to a collection...” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 18622; Maria, 192; Wantrup, 172.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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