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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 #:
  391
• Lot Description:
  Harris, Alexander. Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years’ Labour in the Australian Backwoods
  By an Emigrant Mechanic. Duodecimo, original cloth, free front endpaper excised. London, G. Cox, 1847.
• Notes:
  First edition: one of the classic accounts of pre-gold rush Australia and widely acknowledged as the most significant early articulation of the spirit of Australian egalitarianism. Exiled by his family to New South Wales in 1825, Alexander Harris worked as a cedar getter until leaving Australia in 1841. Returning to London he became associated with the movement to promote emigration and wrote or co-wrote several works, most notably this influential account of Australian backwoods life, describing and analysing his own experiences. Ferguson, 4529.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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