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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Collection of Martin Copley AM
• Sale Date:
  22 Oct 2017 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  62
• Lot Description:
  KING, Phillip Parker. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1817 and 1822
  London, 1826. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding engraved charts, 12 aquatint plates, folding engraved plate and woodcuts in the text, half-titles and errata leaf; uncut in the original boards (a little damp-marked, spines repapered mounting the original labels). A little foxing. Inscribed on the first half-title ‘George Brown with the publisher’s compliments’.
• Notes:
  A very good, uncut set of King’s account of his four voyages to complete the surveys of the northern and north-west coasts, left unfinished by Flinders: a major contribution to Australian hydrography. This is the rare first issue, with the 1826 titles and here with four inserted publisher’s advertisement leaves at the end of the second volume, dated December, 1825, which includes this book under the heading ‘Preparing for publication,’ with the working title ‘Voyages of discovery undertaken to complete the survey of the western coast of New Holland’.
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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