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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2018 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  343
• Lot Description:
  MACONOCHIE, Alexander (Capt.) Australiana. Thoughts on Convict Management and other subjects connected with the Australian Penal Colonies.
  [London & Hobart; John W. Parker & J.C. MacDougall, 1839]. Octavo bound in original blue cloth; remnant paper title to spine. With errata slip bound-in. Supplement to Thoughts on Convict Management.
• Notes:
  In 1836 Maconochie accompanied Sir John Franklin the new lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land to Hobart Town as his private secretary. Once there he prepared a report published as a parliamentary paper on the treatment of convicts. Its contents however proved so inflammatory that Franklin was forced to dismiss him. Maconochie was nonetheless given an opportunity to put his reformative theories on convict management into practice on Norfolk Island to which place he was appointed superintendent in 1840. It was on Norfolk Island that Maconochie "formulated and applied most of the principles on which modern penology is based" (ADB 1967).
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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