PRINSEP, Augustus (1803-1830), and Elisabeth Acworth PRINSEP (1804-1885) - photo 1
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PRINSEP, Augustus (1803-1830), and Elisabeth Acworth PRINSEP (1804-1885)

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Lot 130 | PRINSEP, Augustus (1803-1830), and Elisabeth Acworth PRINSEP (1804-1885)
PRINSEP, Augustus (1803-1830), and Elisabeth Acworth PRINSEP (1804-1885)

The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land: Comprising a Description of that Colony during a Six Months’ Residence. London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill. 1833. [With:] – Illustrations to Prinsep's Journal ... from original sketches taken during the years 1829 and 1830. London: 1833.

The rare india paper issue ('very rare indeed' (Wantrup)) with the marvellous panorama of Hobart beautifully hand-coloured. One of the scarcer Australian view-books and a celebrated Tasmanian rarity, by husband and wife Elisabeth and Augustus Princep, describing their journey from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s land (now Tasmania). Augustus was forced, having contracting tuberculosis, to leave Calcutta and was advised to take a sea journey for his health. Elizabeth Prinsep, his wife, travelled separately, joining her husband at Singapore. They arrived together in Hobart Town on 22 September 1829, where they remained until March 1830, the entire voyage giving rise to Augustus’s posthumous Journal of a Voyage (1833) edited by Elizabeth from her husband's letters and partly illustrated by her drawings. Sadly, Augustus’s failing health necessitated a second voyage, which unfortunately he did not survive. After the publication of the text was well received, Elizabeth produced a set of illustrations to the voyage, ten fine lithographs, issued in two parts to accompany the text. The illustrations are after sketches by Augustus, with at least one by Elizabeth, and two others by her brother-in-law, Captain Thomas Prinsep. Seven of the plates are of Van Diemen’s Land and three are of Penang and Angir. The Illustrations were issued in two parts, without title-page or text, including the fine and celebrated folding 'Panoramic View of Hobarton'. They were issued in two forms, on india paper (as here) or plain paper – both of which are rare, particularly when hand-coloured. Prinsep’s Illustrations are of considerable artistic merit, and as one of very few early pictorial records of Australia, it is an important work. Abbey Travel 607; Bobins IV, 1463; Ferguson 695 (Text) & 1696 (Views); Wantrup 231b.





Three volumes, one of text, small octavo (165 x 100mm), two of plates quarto (295 x 242mm). Text vol. pp. viii, 117, [1], [2] advertisements, with folding map as frontispiece (map lightly spotted, light toning). Contemporary brown cloth, printed paper title label to upper cover (upper joint cracked, a little rubbed and soiled); plates stab-bound in original brown printed pictorial wrappers, the first part with six contemporary hand-coloured lithographic plates, the second with four contemporary hand-coloured lithographic plates, including the panoramic folding 'Plan of Hobarton' (spines of both wrappers strengthened with paper, minor spotting to wraps). Provenance: M. M. Molhy, Chichester 1833 (contemporary inscription on flyleaf).





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