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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 #:
  397
• Lot Description:
  Hingston, James. Guide for Excursionists from Melbourne. Dedicated to all in search of Health
  Recreation, and Pleasure. Duodecimo, pp. 256, [8] (blanks), [52] (advertisements, many illustrated), original semi-limp green cloth, rustic gilt lettering “OUTS” on front board, advertisement endpapers. Melbourne, H. Thomas, 1868.
• Notes:
  Scarce: first edition of this detailed tourist’s guide to destinations throughout Victoria. Published in 1868, it is really quite an early example of the tourist guide-book genre which did not become commonplace until the 1880s. Hingston narratively records routes to various cities, towns, resorts, and places of interest as well as offering a very good account of each place, making this something of a conversational gazetteer or doomsday book of Victoria, a decade after the gold rushes had made it one of the most prosperous communities in the world. This first edition is not in Ferguson but see his 10437e for another issue without the advertisements and without the preceding integral blanks.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 400
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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