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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 #:
  386
• Lot Description:
  Guilfoyle, W.R. First Book. Australian Botany: Specially Designed For the Use of Schools…
  Illustrated by the author. Octavo, folding frontispiece, illustrations, original gilt-decorated green cloth, E. Angas Johnson copy with bookplate. Melbourne, S. Mullen, 1878.
• Notes:
  First edition. Guilfoyle’s greatest legacy has been his design for the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, making it one of the finest public gardens in the world. He also designed the gardens for a number of private properties in Victoria’s Western District. He was, however, a botanist by profession and this finely illustrated Australian botany for students – and this is an early example of an educational work written with specifically Australian relevance – is adorned with probably the most attractive cover design found in any colonial Australian publisher’s binding, the whole front board taken up with a rich gilt-pictorial representation titled (in the image) “Scene in a Gipps Land Forest”. With an author’s gift inscription to “Master John Fitzgibbon”, dated 25 November 1878. Ferguson, 10136a.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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