The Australian Sketchbook by S.T.G

Acquired From: Hordern House

Colouring: Coloured

Condition: Very Good

Confirmed: No

Description: This is one of the best illustrated books on Australian life in the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Thomas Gill's most famous volume and his last, it is a most attractive album of 25 rural scenes – bushranging, kangaroo stalking, the bush mailman, cattle droving – with a poignant comparison throughout between the life of the Aborigines and that of the settlers. 'Bush Funeral', for example, which shows a weeping funeral procession behind a coffin pulled by two bullocks, is followed by 'Native Sepulchre', an Aboriginal corpse on a platform with howling dingoes below

First published: The Australian Sketchbook, Melbourne: Hamel & bFerguson, 1865

Mapmaker: Gill, Samuel Thomas (1818-1880)

Notes: Purchase details-date

Price: A7,727 plus gst

Primary Category: Book/Atlas

Rarity: R3 Uncommon – dealers can usually obtain a copy

References: Ferguson, 9924; Wantrup, 251nProvenance James Edge-Partington, with his bookplate

Technique: Lithograph

This state: 1865

Website: https://www.hordern.com/pages/books/5000645/samuel-thomas-gill/the-au…