422 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm. #0119

THE DENIS JOACHIM COLLECTION

Assembled over fifty years, the Denis Joachim Collection is the most important of its type in private hands. Denis has amassed a collection that ranges impressively over several fields of collecting. Fine art, topographical art, voyage art, colonial landscape photography, colonial ethnographic photography, rare and important Australian books and documents, and colonial prints; everything that illuminates and illustrates life in colonial times and records the responses of a European sensibility to the new world of the Pacific.

• An auction of 1046 lots ranging over several fields of collecting including fine art, topographical art, voyage art, colonial landscape photography, colonial ethnographic photography, rare and important Australian books and documents and colonial prints. Includes a set of ten watercolours from the John Heaviside Clark title ‘Field sports of the native inhabitants of New South Wales’ and ‘South Australia illustrated by George French Angas, plus many other important books, documents and prints containing references and images of Australian Aboriginal peoples.
• Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863. Field sports, &?óÔé¼ÔÇ?c. &?óÔé¼ÔÇ?c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales.
• Angas, George French, 1822-1886.