Beschreibung:

ANGAS, George French (1822-1886). Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia. By "Agricola". Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas London: printed by G. Barclay for Smith Elder & Co., 1849. Small 2° (370 x 270mm). 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Angas, printed by M.& N. Hanhart, uncoloured lithographic map (only?, of 2). (Lacking the folding 'Sketch Map of the Country comprising the seven special surveys', small marginal repairs to final text leaf.) 20th-century blue morocco gilt, red morocco lettering-piece on upper cover, original upper and lower wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION, VERY SCARCE. No copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. According to both Abbey and Wantrup this work should include a folding map, but no mention of a map is made by Ferguson. 'The book was designed to promote South Australia rather than to promote Angas's illustrations. Even so, it is a most attractive work and a very rare one... The lithographs are of special interest in this book since they are drawn on the stone by Angas himself. So much of Angas's work was reinterpreted by English lithographers that this book is especially desirable since the plates provide a faithful expression of Angas's artistic intentions and a more accurately observed representation of the Australian scenery' (Wantrup pp.312-313). Abbey Travel II,580; Ferguson 4968; Wantrup 238.