Dougall's "Far South"

Dougall's "Far South" sells for £11,875

Exploration and Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 2, D-J
30 September 2014 | 10:00 AM BST London

Dougall, William
FAR SOUTH. STEWART ISLAND, THE SNARES, AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, ANTIPODES, AND BOUNTY ISLANDS. INVERCARGILL [NEW ZEALAND]: W. DOUGALL, PHOTOGRAPHER, 1888
Estimate 3,000 — 5,000 GBP
LOT SOLD. 11,875 GBP (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Details & Cataloguing
Dougall, William
FAR SOUTH. STEWART ISLAND, THE SNARES, AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, ANTIPODES, AND BOUNTY ISLANDS. INVERCARGILL [NEW ZEALAND]: W. DOUGALL, PHOTOGRAPHER, 1888

2 volumes (8vo text and oblong folio album of photographs), text: 8vo (217 x 135mm.), [iv], 3-22pp., original printed yellow wrappers, stapled as issued, preserved in the front cover pocket of the accompanying album of photographs: oblong folio (302 x 390mm.), 77 mounted albumen print photographs (from 102 x 145mm. to 240 x 294mm., or the reverse), (56 are listed in the text volume as a complete set, this album is extra-illustrated with 21 additional photographs), nearly all with letterpress captions pasted on the printed mounts, publisher's dark red morocco, yellow endpapers, text with vertical crease, staining to text and wrappers, spine slightly worn, some fading to photographs, light to heavy spotting on mounts, binding of album expertly refurbished

A very rare booklet and accompanying extra-illustrated album of photographs; we are unable to trace any auction record for either the text or the album of photographs. The text for the booklet was first published in the Southland Times, and is here published separately for the first time, together with a list of the photographs that were issued to accompany the text. The album was published with 56 photographs, however the present album has an additional 21 mounted photographs by Dougall.

Thomas Musgrave, whose signature appears in the booklet, was shipwrecked on the Auckland Islands for twenty months in the 1860s and is mentioned in the text; a harbour on Auckland island is named after him and there is a photograph of the wreck in the album.

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